Peoples of the earth
Subtitle: ethnonationalism, democracy, and the indigenous challenge in "Latin" America
By: Martin Edwin Andersen ; foreword by Robert A. Pastor
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780739143919
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The "miner's canary" of democracy; title: Elite neglect and "rediscovery"; title: Is democracy a zero-sum game?; title: Imagined communities : marxism and the Indian nation-state; title: Indian lands, "ungoverned spaces," and failing states; title: Bolivia : unraveling a present past; title: Perú : the emergence of the unbowed "other"; title: Ecuador : a populist test of plurinationalism; title: Guatemala : many nations within a single nation-state; title: Chile : contesting the lands of the "people of the earth"; title: Colombia : special rights within a context of lawlessness; title: Toward a new American identity; title: Conclusions.