Kurzbeschreibung
This new edition brings the history of Bolivian society up to the present, covering the fundamental changes that have occurred since the National Revolution of 1952, the return of democracy in 1982, the installation of the first self-proclaimed Indian president and the major changes from the government of Evo Morales.
Inhaltsangabe
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.
Klappentext
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.
