Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian PoliticsThis is a comprehensive study of insurrection in Bolivia, from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In an age of military neoliberalism, social movements, and centre-Left coalition governments have advanced across South America, sparking hope for radical change in a period otherwise characterized by regressive imperial and anti-imperial politics. Nowhere do the limits and possibilities of popular advance stand out as they do in Bolivia, the most heavily indigenous country in the Americas. It traces the rise to power of Evo Morales' new administration, whose announced goals are to end imperial domination and internal colonialism through nationalization of the country's oil and gas reserves, and to forge a new system of political representation. Hylton and Thomson provide an anatomy of the popular insurgency that transformed state and society from below, and chart the history of Bolivia's struggle from the late-colonial period onwards. |
Contents
The Plaza and the Palacio | 3 |
Revolution in Historical Context | 18 |
Indian Rule and Creole Rule in the Age of Revolution | 35 |
Copyright | |
12 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics Forrest Hylton,Sinclair Thomson Limited preview - 2020 |
Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics Forrest Hylton,Sinclair Thomson No preview available - 2007 |
Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics Forrest Hylton,Sinclair Thomson No preview available - 2007 |
Common terms and phrases
agenda agrarian alliance Alto Andean autonomy Aymara Aymara communities Banzer blockades Bolivia caciques capital Carlos Mesa century Chaco Chaco War Chapare Chayanta Chuquisaca coca growers cocalero Cochabamba colonial constitutional assembly corregidor countryside creole CSUTCB culture demands economic El Alto elections elites ethnic Evo Morales FEJUVE Felipe Quispe García Linera historical hydrocarbons Indian community Indian peasant indígena indigenous insurgent insurrection internal La Paz labor Lake Titicaca land leaders leadership Liberal lowlands Mamani Mesa mestizo middle-class military miners mining mobilization national-popular nationalist neighborhood neoliberal northern Potosí October organizations Oruro Oscar Olivera Pando party percent Peru Plaza San Francisco popular forces Potosí President proletarian protest Quechua Quispe radical reform regime regional Republican revolution revolutionary rural Sánchez de Lozada Santa Cruz sectors Siles social movements Socialist Spanish struggle Sucre territory trade union traditional Tupaj Amaru Tupaj Katari urban Vaca Diez workers Zavaleta