A concise history of Bolivia /

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...

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Main Author: Klein, Herbert S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Cambridge concise histories.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Geography and pre-Columbian civilization
  • The creation of a colonial society
  • Late colonial society : crisis and growth
  • Revolution and the creation of a nation-state, 1809-1841
  • The crisis of the state, 1841-1880
  • The ages of silver and tin, 1880-1932
  • Disintegration of the established order, 1932-1952
  • From the national revolution to the cold war, 1952-1982
  • Creating a multiethnic democracy, 1982-2002
  • The emergence of a mestizo and indigenous elite, 2002-2010
  • Bibliographical essay
  • Political chronology.