Unresolved tensions
Subtitle: Bolivia past and present
By: John Crabtree and Laurence Whitehead.
Contributors: Whitehead, Laurence.
Series: Pitt Latin American series
Publisher: Pittsburgh Press; University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780822943556; 9780822960065
Subjects: Bolivia -- Politics and government -- 1982-; Bolivia -- Economic conditions -- 1982-; Bolivia -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The "long memory" of ethnicity in Bolivia and some temporary oscillations / Xavier Albó; title: Let the mestizos stand up and be counted / Carlos Toranzo; title: Oversimplifying identities : the debate over what is indigena and what is mestizo / Diego Zavaleta Reyles; title: Regionalism revisited / José Luis Roca; title: Oppressed or privileged regions? some historical reflections on the use of state resources / Rossana Barragón; title: State-society relations : the strength of weakness / George Gray Molina; title: The weakness of excess : the Bolivian state in an unbounded democracy / Franz Xavier Barrios Suvelza; title: The development of constituent power in Bolivia / Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé; title: Constitution and constitutional reform / Luis Tapia; title: Gas and its importance to the Bolivian economy / Carlos Miranda; title: Beyond gas : between the narrow-based and broad-based economy / Fernanda Wanderley; title: Bolivia in a global setting : economic ties / Juan Antonio Morales; title: The perverse effects of globalization in Bolivia / Carlos Arze Vargas.