A revolution for our rights : indigenous struggles for land and justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952 / Laura Gotkowitz.

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