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Author:

Gotkowitz, Laura.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xiv, 398 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Bolivia--Causes.--Revolution, 1952--Causes.
Indians of South America--Cochabamba (Dept.)--Cochabamba (Dept.)--Government relations.
Indians of South America--Civil rights--Cochabamba (Dept.)--Cochabamba (Dept.)
Social movements--Bolivia--History--20th century.
Opstanden.
Inheemse volken.
Grondbezit.
Platteland.
Bolivia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-384) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0822340674 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822340676 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822340496 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822340492 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)162118812

LCCN:

2007029317

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)