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Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective (David Rockefeller Centre on Latin American Studies)
Merilee S. Grindle (Ed.)
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Description for Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective (David Rockefeller Centre on Latin American Studies)
Paperback. Presents interpretations of the causes of the revolution in Bolivia of 1952 and compares them to the great social transformations that occurred in France, Mexico, Russia, China and Cuba. The essays also examine the political, social and economic development of the country after the revolution. Series: David Rockefeller Centre on Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages, 17 figures, 23 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; 3JJP; GTB; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 634.
The fiftieth anniversary of the 1952 Revolution in Bolivia offered an opportunity to explore contrasting visions about change in this often overlooked country from a comparative perspective. Blending the approaches of history and the social sciences, the chapters in this volume examine both implicitly and explicitly the extent to which the process opened by the uprising of April 1952 is comparable to the great radical transformations that occurred elsewhere during the twentieth century.
The question of historical memory, the origins of the revolution in the political economy and culture of the towns, mines and countryside, and the extent ... Read more
The fiftieth anniversary of the 1952 Revolution in Bolivia offered an opportunity to explore contrasting visions about change in this often overlooked country from a comparative perspective. Blending the approaches of history and the social sciences, the chapters in this volume examine both implicitly and explicitly the extent to which the process opened by the uprising of April 1952 is comparable to the great radical transformations that occurred elsewhere during the twentieth century.
The question of historical memory, the origins of the revolution in the political economy and culture of the towns, mines and countryside, and the extent ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
David Rockefeller Centre on Latin American Studies
Number of Pages
436
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674011410
SKU
V9780674011410
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About Merilee S. Grindle (Ed.)
Merilee Grindle is the Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, Emerita, at Harvard University and the former director of its David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She served as president of the Latin American Studies Association and has written or contributed to over a dozen scholarly books. Pilar Domingo is Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary College, University of ... Read more
Reviews for Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective (David Rockefeller Centre on Latin American Studies)
Proclaiming Revolution is an important contribution—the first book of its kind to approach the implications and consequences of the 1952 revolution in comparison with other Latin American revolutions of similar magnitude...[It] permits us to see the possibility of creating a society that is more humane, reconstructing diverse sociocultural identities in order to reinvent the Bolivian nation "sin mayziscúlas"—the plurimulti 'nation' ... Read more