Conscript Nation : Coercion and Citizenship in the Bolivian Barracks /

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"Military service in Bolivia has long been compulsory for young men. This service plays an important role in defining identity, citizenship, masculinity, state formation, and civil-military relations in twentieth-century Bolivia. The project of obligatory military service originated as part of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shesko, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bolivia. > Ejercito.
Bolivia. > Ejercito > Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
Sociology, Military.
Recruiting and enlistment.
Draft > Social aspects.
Civil-military relations.
HISTORY > General.
Sociologie militaire > Bolivie.
Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire > Bolivie.
Service militaire obligatoire > Aspect social > Bolivie.
Sociology, Military > Bolivia.
Civil-military relations > Bolivia.
Draft > Social aspects > Bolivia.
Bolivia.
Bolivia > History, Military > 20th century.
Military history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : conscription's deep roots
  • Conscription without citizenship
  • Life and labor in the barracks
  • Clientelism and conscript subordination
  • Mobilzation for the Chaco War
  • Good sons and bad fathers in the postwar period
  • Soldiers and veterans but still not citizens
  • What difference did a revolution make?
  • The military's restorative Revolution of 1964.

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