Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective
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 to which the political process after 1952 shaped new interpretations of the country's place in the world are all analysed by leading scholars from Bolivia, the USA and the UK. Full and critical attention is given to the consequences of the revolution over fifty years, with assessments of the parties, structures and policies shaping economic, political and social conditions at the start of the twenty-first century.
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Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective
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 to which the political process after 1952 shaped new interpretations of the country's place in the world are all analysed by leading scholars from Bolivia, the USA and the UK. Full and critical attention is given to the consequences of the revolution over fifty years, with assessments of the parties, structures and policies shaping economic, political and social conditions at the start of the twenty-first century.
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Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective

Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective

Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective

Proclaiming Revolution: Bolivia in Comparative Perspective

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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 to which the political process after 1952 shaped new interpretations of the country's place in the world are all analysed by leading scholars from Bolivia, the USA and the UK. Full and critical attention is given to the consequences of the revolution over fifty years, with assessments of the parties, structures and policies shaping economic, political and social conditions at the start of the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674011410
Publisher: University of London Press
Publication date: 10/03/2003
Series: Institute of Latin American Studies , #10
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 436
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Merilee S. Grindle is Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, Emerita, at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the former Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

Pilar Domingo is Lecturer in Politics, Queen Mary College, University of London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Acronyms

INTRODUCTION

1.1952 and All That: The Bolivian Revolution in Comparative Perspective

Merilee S. Grindle

PART 1: HOW REVOLUTIONARY THE REVOLUTION?

2. The Bolivian National Revolution: A Comparison

Laurence Whitehead

3. The Domestic Dynamics of the Mexican and Bolivian Revolutions

Alan Knight

4. Braked but not Broken: The United States and Revolutionaries in Mexico and Bolivia

Ken Lehman

PART 2: REVOLUTIONARY VISIONS AND ACTORS

5. Revolutionary Memory in Bolivia: Anticolonial and National Projects from 1781 to 1952

Sinclair Thomson

6.The Origins of the Bolivian Revolution in the Twentieth Century: Some Reflections

James Dunkerley

7. Revisiting the Rural Roots of the Revolution

Laura Gotkowitz

8. Capturing Indian Bodies, Hearths and Minds: 'El Hogar Campesino' and Rural School Reform in Bolivia, 1920s-1940s

Brooke Larson

PART 3: REVOLUTIONARY CONSEQUENCES

9. The National Revolution and its Legacy

Juan Antonio Morales

10. Social Change in Bolivia since 1952

Herbert S. Klein

11. A Comparative Perspective on Education Reforms in Bolivia: 1950-2000

Manuel E. Contreras

PART 4: UNFINISHED AGENDAS AND NEW INITIATIVES

12. Political Parties Since 1964: The Construction of Bolivia's Multiparty System

Eduardo Gamarra

13.Shadowing the Past? Policy Reform in Bolivia, 1985-2002

Merilee S. Grindle

14. The Offspring of 1952: Poverty, Exclusion and the Promise of Popular Participation

George Gray Molina

PART 5: CONCLUSION

15. Revolution and the Unfinished Business of Nation- and State- Building

Pilar Domingo

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