Bolivia: Revolution and the Power of History in the Present
Subtitle: Essays
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press; Institute for the Study of the Americas
Published: August 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781900039819
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Political Science; History - General History; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Bolivia; Essays; History & Theory - General; Latin America - South America; Political Process - General; International Relations - General
Description: "This volume brings together essays written over three decades on Bolivian history and politics. Opening with a contemporary survey of the new government of the MAS headed by Evo Morales, the chapters here review the neo-liberal experiments of the 1980s and 1990s, the strategic and intellectual failures of Che Guevara's guerrilla foco, the origins of the Revolution of 1952, explanations for the dominance of the caudillos of the 19th century, and the extraordinary story of Francisca Burdett O'Connor, whose life combined liberations struggles on both sides of the Atlantic."--Jacket.