We Created Chavez : A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ciccariello-Maher, George.

Ciccariello-Maher, George, Author.

Contributor:

St. Andrews, Jeff, Contributor.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cha ́vez Fri ́as, Hugo.

Social movements--Venezuela--History.

Venezuela--History--Revolution, 1958.

Venezuela--Politics and government.

Social movements--History--Venezuela.

Social movements.

Local Subjects:

Cha ́vez Fri ́as, Hugo.

Social movements--Venezuela--History.

Venezuela--History--Revolution, 1958.

Venezuela--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This history of Venezuelan politics from below tells how militants, students, women, Afro-indigeneous peoples, and the working-class brought about Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution and, ultimately, brought Hugo Chávez to power.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Map of Venezuela; Introduction. What People? Whose History?; One. A Guerrilla History; Two. Reconnecting with the Masses; Three. Birth of the ''Tupamaros''; First Interlude. The CaracazoHistory Splits in Two; Four. Sergio's Blood: Student Struggles from the University to the Streets; Five. Manuelita's Boots: Women between Two Movements; Six. José Leonardo's Body and the Collapse of Mestizaje; Second Interlude. Every Eleventh Has Its Thirteenth; Seven. Venezuelan Workers: Aristocracy or Revolutionary Class?

Eight. Oligarchs Tremble! : Peasant Struggles at the Margins of the StateNine. A New Proletariat? : Informal Labor and the Revolutionary Streets; Conclusion. Dual Power against the Magical State; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

ISBN:

9781299462816

1299462812

9780822378938

0822378930

OCLC:

1202623265