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A revolution for our rights : indigenous struggles for land and justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952 / Laura Gotkowitz.
e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection Pre-2008 Archive Available online
e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection Pre-2008 Archive- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gotkowitz, Laura.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Bolivia--Cochabamba (Dept.)--Government relations.
- Indians of South America--Civil rights--Bolivia--Cochabamba (Dept.).
- Social movements--Bolivia--History--20th century.
- Bolivia--History--Revolution, 1952--Causes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Analyzes struggles over citizenship and nationhood in Bolivia, following the fate of subaltern projects for political inclusion and asking why ethnic/racial claims were more effectively incorporated into the revolutionary agenda than were gender demands.
- Contents:
- The peculiar paths of the liberal project
- Indigenista statecraft and the rise of the caciques apoderados
- "In our provinces there is no justice" : caciques apoderados and the crisis of the liberal project
- The problem of national unity : from the Chaco War to the 1938 Constitutional Convention
- The unruly countryside : defending land, labor rights, and autonomy
- The unwilling city : Villarroel populism and the politics of mestizaje
- "The disgrace of the Pongo and the Mitani" : the 1945 indigenous congress and a law against servitude
- "Under the dominion of the Indian" : the 1947 cycle of unrest
- Conclusion and epilogue : rethinking the rural roots of the 1952 revolution.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-384) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613023278
- 9780822340492
- 0822340496
- 9781283023276
- 128302327X
- OCLC:
- 271168176
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