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1st ed. |
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1 online resource : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere
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William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
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| Summary |
From the Mines to the Streets draws on the life of Félix Muruchi to depict the greater forces at play in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America during the last half of the twentieth century. It traces Félix from his birth in an indigenous family in 1946, just after the abolition of bonded labor, through the next sixty years of Bolivia's turbulent history. As a teenager, Félix followed his father into the tin mines before serving a compulsory year in the military, during which he witnessed the 1964 coup d'état that plunged the country into eighteen years of military rule. He returned to work in the mines, where he quickly rose to become a union leader. The reward for his activism was imprisonment, torture, and exile. After he came home, he participated actively in the struggles against neoliberal governments, which led in 2006 -- the year of his sixtieth birthday-- to the inauguration of Evo Morales as Bolivia's first indigenous president. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Growing up in the fields and the mines -- pt. 2. The mines -- pt. 3. From exile to exile -- pt. 4. Activist in El Alto. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Muruchi Poma, Feliciano Félix, 1946-
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Muruchi Poma, Feliciano Félix, 1946- |
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Political activists -- Bolivia -- Biography.
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Political activists. |
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Bolivia. |
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Biographies.
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Labor leaders -- Bolivia -- Biography.
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Labor leaders. |
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Miners -- Bolivia -- Biography.
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Miners. |
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Bolivia -- Politics and government -- 1952-1982.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1952-1982 |
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Bolivia -- Politics and government -- 1982-2006.
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| Chronological Term |
1982-2006 |
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Bolivia -- Social conditions -- 1952-1982.
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Bolivia -- Social conditions -- 1982-
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| Chronological Term |
1982- |
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Indigenous peoples -- Bolivia -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Indigenous peoples. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. |
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Social conditions. |
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. |
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Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1900 |
| Genre/Form |
Autobiography.
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Biography.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Kohl, Benjamin H.
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Farthing, Linda.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Muruchi Poma, Feliciano Félix, 1946- From the mines to the streets. 1st ed. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011 9780292723962 (DLC) 2010043512 (OCoLC)671238367 |
| ISBN |
9780292734753 (electronic book) |
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0292734751 (electronic book) |
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9780292723962 |
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0292723962 |
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