A revolution for our rights
Subtitle: indigenous struggles for land and justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952
By: Laura Gotkowitz.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822340492; 9780822340676
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Bolivia -- Cochabamba (Dept.) -- Government relations; Indians of South America -- Civil rights -- Bolivia -- Cochabamba (Dept.); Social movements -- Bolivia -- History -- 20th century; Bolivia -- History -- Revolution, 1952 -- Causes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The peculiar paths of the liberal project; title: Indigenista statecraft and the rise of the caciques apoderados; title: "In our provinces there is no justice" : caciques apoderados and the crisis of the liberal project; title: The problem of national unity : from the Chaco War to the 1938 Constitutional Convention; title: The unruly countryside : defending land, labor rights, and autonomy; title: The unwilling city : Villarroel populism and the politics of mestizaje; title: "The disgrace of the Pongo and the Mitani" : the 1945 indigenous congress and a law against servitude; title: "Under the dominion of the Indian" : the 1947 cycle of unrest.