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Landscape of Migration : Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present /

"In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "March to the East." They encouraged hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Bolivians to relocate from the "overcrowded"...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nobbs-Thiessen, Ben (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Moving pictures : narrative, aesthetic, and Bolivia's frontier imaginary
  • Military bases and rubber tires : Okinawans and Mennonites at the margins of nation, revolution, and empire, 1952-1968
  • Abandonment issues : speaking to the state from the Andes and Amazonia, 1952-1968
  • To minister or administer : faith and frontier development in revolutionary and authoritarian Bolivia, 1952-1982
  • A sort of backwoods guerrilla warfare : Mexican Mennonites and the South American soy boom, 1967-present.