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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gotkowitz, Laura
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Bolivia > History > Revolution, 1952 > Causes.
Indians of South America > Bolivia > Cochabamba (Department) > Government relations.
Indians of South America > Civil rights > Bolivia > Cochabamba (Department)
Social movements > Bolivia > History > 20th century.
Table of 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.