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Blood of the earth : resource nationalism, revolution, and empire in Bolivia /

Conflicts over subterranean resources, particularly tin, oil, and natural gas, have driven Bolivian politics for nearly a century.'Resource nationalism'--the conviction that resource wealth should be used for the benefit of the'nation'--has often united otherwise disparate groups...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Young, Kevin A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : natural resources, economic visions, and US intervention in twentieth-century Bolivia
  • The road to resource nationalism : economic ideas and popular coalitions in La Paz, 1927-1952
  • A new type of Bolivian economy : competing visions, 1952-1956
  • The political economy of containment : privatization, austerity, and the MNR's shift to the right, 1955-1964
  • The battle for men's minds : economic paradigms, propaganda, and the iconography of revolution
  • The limits of containment : anti-austerity and resource nationalism in La Paz factories
  • Oil and nation : the crusade to save Bolivia's hydrocarbons
  • Epilogue : resource nationalism and popular struggle in the twenty-first century
  • Appendix : professional backgrounds of key middle-class participants in economic debates, 1940s-1960s.