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A Concise History of Bolivia

2nd Edition

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Author: Herbert S. Klein, Stanford University

Date Published: January 2011
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521183727

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Bolivia is an unusual high-altitude society created by imperial conquests and native adaptations, and it remains today the most Indian of the American republics, yet it fully participates in the world economy. It has also seen the most social and economic mobility of Indian and mestizo populations in Latin America. These are among the themes analyzed in this historical survey. In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic, social, cultural, and political ev¬olution from the arrival of early man in the Andes to the present, this current version brings the history of this society up to the present day, covering the fundamental changes that have occurred since the National Revolution of 1952 and the return of democracy in 1982. These changes have included the introduction of universal education and the rise of the mestizos and Indian populations to political power for the first time in national history. Containing an updated bibliography, A Concise History of Bolivia remains an essential text for courses in Latin American history and politics. The second edition brings this story through the first administration of the first self-proclaimed Indian president in national history and the major changes that the government of Evo Morales has introduced in Bolivia society, politics, and economy.
- New edition includes an analysis of the last ten years of Bolivian development including the first administration of Evo Morales
- The standard history of Bolivia to date in Spanish and English and is the only general modern interpretative text written on this country
- Widely used in undergraduate and graduate courses and by interested readers
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Product details
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: January 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521183727
- length: 376 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- contains: 9 b/w illus. 5 maps 14 tables
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
1. Geography and pre-Columbian civilization
2. The creation of a colonial society
3. Late colonial society: crisis and growth
4. Revolution and the creation of a nation-state, 1809–1841
5. The crisis of the state, 1841–1880
6. The ages of silver and tin, 1880–1932
7. Disintegration of the established order, 1932–1952
8. From the national revolution to the cold war, 1952–1982
9. Creating a multiethnic democracy, 1982–2002
10. The emergence of a mestizo and indigenous elite, 2002–2010
Bibliographical essay
Political chronology.
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Herbert S. Klein, Stanford University
Herbert S. Klein is the author of 22 books and 163 articles in several languages on Latin America and comparative themes in social and economic history. Among these books are The Atlantic Slave Trade, 2nd edition (2010) and four studies of slavery, the most recent of which are Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750–1850 (co-author, 2003), African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (co-author, 2008) and Slavery in Brazil (co-author, 2009), as well as four books on Bolivian history. He has also published books on such diverse themes as The American Finances of the Spanish Empire, 1680–1809 (1998), A Population History of the United States (2004) and Hispanics in the United States Since 1980 (co-author, 2010).