A revolution for our rights [electronic resource] : indigenous struggles for land and justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952 / Laura Gotkowitz.
Material type: TextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007Description: xiv, 398 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): 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 -- CausesGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: F3326 | .G68 2007Online resources: Click to View
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.
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