A concise history of Bolivia
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A concise history of Bolivia
（Cambridge concise histories）
Cambridge University Press, 2011
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 309-340
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 evolution 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. This 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 Bolivian society, politics and economics.
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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