The Bolivia Reader : History, Culture, Politics /
The Bolivia Reader provides a panoramic view, from antiquity to the present, of the history, culture, and politics of a country known for its ethnic and regional diversity, its rich natural resources and dilemmas of economic development, and its political conflict and creativity. Featuring both clas...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | The Latin America Readers
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Bolivia Reader
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. First Peoples and the Making of Andean and Amazonian Space
- Myth of Inka Origin at Lake Titicaca
- The Myth of Tunupa
- Guaraní Creation Myth
- Verticality and Complementarity
- Peopling the Empire
- Workers in the Fields of the Inka
- Settlement and Landscape Transformation in the Amazonian Lowlands
- II. States and Conquests in the Andes
- Conquest by the Inka
- "Our Natives Were Well Governed"
- The Myth of the Chullpas and the Emergence of the Sun
- A Spanish Vision of the Conquest
- An Uru Vision of the Conquest
- A Guaraní Vision of the Conquest
- III. The Rich Mountain
- Tales of Potosí
- Imperial Panoply in the Baroque City
- The Good Wife
- Cacique Nobility and Heraldry
- Trade with Potosí
- Mining and the Mita
- New Worlds, Jesuit Worlds
- Echoes of the Missions
- IV. From Indian Insurgency to Creole Independence
- Death to Bad Government
- The Siege of La Paz
- An Unbearable Yoke
- The Specter of Justice
- The Creole Cry of Freedom
- Debate over Spanish Sovereignty
- Guerrilla Patriots
- Frontier Confrontations
- Farewell
- Inventing Bolivia
- V. Market Circuits and Enclave Extraction
- A Conspiracy of Commerce
- The Argument for Free Trade
- The Silver Patriarch
- Transforming the Property Regime
- Disentailment and Its Discontents
- Integration of the Lowlands
- Dreams of the Railroad
- Integration of the South
- The Tin Baron
- VI. The Nation and Political Fragmentation
- The Peru-Bolivian Confederation
- In the Forests of the Yuracaré
- "Are You Not Equal?"
- Cosmopolitan Taste
- War and Peace on the Frontier
- A Tenuous Alliance
- Egalitarian Revolution
- The War of the Pacific
- The God Man
- An Aymara Command
- Social Darwinism in the Courtroom
- "The Slow and Gradual Disappearance of the Indigenous Race"
- VII. The Nationalization of Natural Resources
- The Problem of the East
- A Woman's Realm
- Everyday Life on the Hacienda
- Landlord Counteroffensive
- "Land to Those Who Work It"
- The Catavi Massacre
- Mines as Cemeteries
- Sergio Almaraz Paz
- The March to the East
- A Beggar on a Chair of Gold
- The Condemnation of Coca
- The Blood of the Nation
- VIII. Revolutionary Currents
- The Laws of the Land
- Resurrection of the Race
- A Voice for Women
- A Woman's Work
- The Business of War
- The Ayllu-School
- Front Lines
- Leaving for the Front
- The Death of Servitude
- Trotsky on the Altiplano
- Nation vs. Anti-nation
- The Sudden Upheaval
- The People versus the Rosca
- "They Fought without Holding Back"
- History Redeemed
- Requiem for a Revolution
- Iconoclast and Prophet
- IX. Dictatorship and Democracy
- Cold War Strongman
- A Continental Vanguard
- The Call to Armed Struggle
- An Aymara in the Ranks
- Under a Waning Moon
- The Gospel of a Guerrilla
- The Military-Peasant Pact
- In the Name of Katari
- Urban Underworld
- We Need to Be Organized Too
- A Strike of the Conscience
- The Dictatorship on Trial
- All Saints Massacre
- Narco-Dictatorship
- Labor and the Return to Democracy
- The Crisis as Method
- Horizons of Memory
- Travails of the Migrant
- X. Neoliberalism and Lowland Ascendancy
- "Bitter Medicine"
- In the Name of the Nation
- Farewell to Llallagua
- The Workers Disperse
- Pushing Privatization
- Privatization Bolivian-Style
- Make Your Dream a Reality
- A Leaf in the Wind
- "For Sale" Signs
- XI. Competing Projects for the Future
- Song for the Flowers
- Indian Theology
- The Long March
- In the Time of the Pachakuti
- Radical Regionalism
- Fiesta Power
- Flaws in the System
- A Day of One's Own
- The Cultural Life of Coca
- The Coca Commodity Circuit
- Even the Rain
- Water Is Not for Sale
- Like a Bird
- The Gas War
- XII Pachakuti?
- Brother and Comrade
- Deepening Divisions
- Foot Soldiers of Camba Nationalism
- Reclaiming the Capital
- A New Social Contract
- Living Well
- Rights of Nature
- Standoff in the Beni
- "Creative Tensions"
- The Wages of Development
- A Final Offering
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources
- Index