UID:
almafu_9959673974502883
Format:
1 online resource (744 p.) :
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87 illustrations, incl. 10 in color
ISBN:
9780822371618
Series Statement:
The Latin America Readers
Content:
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 classic and little-known texts ranging from fiction, memoir, and poetry to government documents, journalism, and political speeches, the volume challenges stereotypes of Bolivia as a backward nation while offering insights into the country's history of mineral extraction, revolution, labor organizing, indigenous peoples' movements, and much more. Whether documenting Inka rule or Spanish conquest, three centuries at the center of Spanish empire, or the turbulent politics and cultural vibrancy of the national period, these sources—the majority of which appear in English for the first time—foreground the voices of actors from many different walks of life. Unprecedented in scope, The Bolivia Reader illustrates the historical depth and contemporary challenges of Bolivia in all their complexity.
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The Bolivia Reader --
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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I. First Peoples and the Making of Andean and Amazonian Space --
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Myth of Inka Origin at Lake Titicaca --
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The Myth of Tunupa --
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Guaraní Creation Myth --
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Verticality and Complementarity --
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Peopling the Empire --
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Workers in the Fields of the Inka --
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Settlement and Landscape Transformation in the Amazonian Lowlands --
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II. States and Conquests in the Andes --
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Conquest by the Inka --
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“Our Natives Were Well Governed” --
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The Myth of the Chullpas and the Emergence of the Sun --
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A Spanish Vision of the Conquest --
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An Uru Vision of the Conquest --
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A Guaraní Vision of the Conquest --
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III. The Rich Mountain --
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Tales of Potosí --
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Imperial Panoply in the Baroque City --
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The Good Wife --
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Cacique Nobility and Heraldry --
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Trade with Potosí --
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Mining and the Mita --
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New Worlds, Jesuit Worlds --
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Echoes of the Missions --
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IV. From Indian Insurgency to Creole Independence --
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Death to Bad Government --
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The Siege of La Paz --
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An Unbearable Yoke --
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The Specter of Justice --
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The Creole Cry of Freedom --
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Debate over Spanish Sovereignty --
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Guerrilla Patriots --
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Frontier Confrontations --
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Farewell --
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Inventing Bolivia --
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V. Market Circuits and Enclave Extraction --
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A Conspiracy of Commerce --
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The Argument for Free Trade --
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The Silver Patriarch --
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Transforming the Property Regime --
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Disentailment and Its Discontents --
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Integration of the Lowlands --
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Dreams of the Railroad --
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Integration of the South --
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The Tin Baron --
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VI. The Nation and Political Fragmentation --
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The Peru-Bolivian Confederation --
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In the Forests of the Yuracaré --
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“Are You Not Equal?” --
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Cosmopolitan Taste --
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War and Peace on the Frontier --
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A Tenuous Alliance --
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Egalitarian Revolution --
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The War of the Pacific --
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The God Man --
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An Aymara Command --
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Social Darwinism in the Courtroom --
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“The Slow and Gradual Disappearance of the Indigenous Race” --
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VII. The Nationalization of Natural Resources --
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The Problem of the East --
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A Woman’s Realm --
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Everyday Life on the Hacienda --
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Landlord Counteroffensive --
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“Land to Those Who Work It” --
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The Catavi Massacre --
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Mines as Cemeteries --
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Sergio Almaraz Paz --
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The March to the East --
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A Beggar on a Chair of Gold --
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The Condemnation of Coca --
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The Blood of the Nation --
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VIII. Revolutionary Currents --
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The Laws of the Land --
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Resurrection of the Race --
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A Voice for Women --
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A Woman’s Work --
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The Business of War --
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The Ayllu-School --
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Front Lines --
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Leaving for the Front --
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The Death of Servitude --
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Trotsky on the Altiplano --
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Nation vs. Anti-nation --
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The Sudden Upheaval --
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The People versus the Rosca --
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“They Fought without Holding Back” --
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History Redeemed --
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Requiem for a Revolution --
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Iconoclast and Prophet --
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IX. Dictatorship and Democracy --
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Cold War Strongman --
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A Continental Vanguard --
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The Call to Armed Struggle --
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An Aymara in the Ranks --
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Under a Waning Moon --
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The Gospel of a Guerrilla --
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The Military-Peasant Pact --
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In the Name of Katari --
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Urban Underworld --
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We Need to Be Organized Too --
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A Strike of the Conscience --
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The Dictatorship on Trial --
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All Saints Massacre --
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Narco-Dictatorship --
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Labor and the Return to Democracy --
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The Crisis as Method --
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Horizons of Memory --
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Travails of the Migrant --
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X. Neoliberalism and Lowland Ascendancy --
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“Bitter Medicine” --
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In the Name of the Nation --
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Farewell to Llallagua --
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The Workers Disperse --
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Pushing Privatization --
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Privatization Bolivian-Style --
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Make Your Dream a Reality --
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A Leaf in the Wind --
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“For Sale” Signs --
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XI. Competing Projects for the Future --
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Song for the Flowers --
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Indian Theology --
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The Long March --
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In the Time of the Pachakuti --
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Radical Regionalism --
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Fiesta Power --
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Flaws in the System --
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A Day of One’s Own --
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The Cultural Life of Coca --
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The Coca Commodity Circuit --
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Even the Rain --
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Water Is Not for Sale --
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Like a Bird --
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The Gas War --
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XII Pachakuti? --
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Brother and Comrade --
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Deepening Divisions --
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Foot Soldiers of Camba Nationalism --
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Reclaiming the Capital --
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A New Social Contract --
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Living Well --
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Rights of Nature --
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Standoff in the Beni --
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“Creative Tensions” --
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The Wages of Development --
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A Final Offering --
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Suggestions for Further Reading --
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Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1515/9780822371618
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822371618
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822371618
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822371618
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822371618
URL:
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