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Author Soliz, Carmen, author.

Title Fields of revolution : agrarian reform and rural state formation in Bolivia, 1935-1964 / Carmen Soliz.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Pitt Latin American series
Pitt Latin American series.
Summary "Fields of Revolution examines the second largest case of peasant land redistribution in Latin America and agrarian reform-arguably the most important policy to arise out of Bolivia's 1952 revolution. Competing understandings of agrarian reform shaped ideas of property, productivity, welfare, and justice. Peasants embraced the nationalist slogan of "land for those who work it" and rehabilitated national union structures. Indigenous communities proclaimed instead "land to its original owners" and sought to link the ruling party discourse on nationalism with their own long-standing demands for restitution. Landowners, for their part, embraced the principle of "land for those who improve it" to protect at least portions of their former properties from expropriation. Carmen Soliz combines analysis of governmental policies and national discourse with everyday local actors' struggles and interactions with the state to draw out the deep connections between land and people as a material reality and as the object of political contention in the period surrounding the revolution."
Introduction -- The Liberal Project in the Countryside -- The Indian Problem and the Agrarian Question under Debate -- Revolution Comes to the Countryside -- Redistribute Land Soon -- Land to Its Original Owners -- Land for Those Who Work It -- Epilogue: Everyday Forms of Revolution.
Contents Introduction -- The Liberal Project in the Countryside -- The Indian Problem and the Agrarian Question under Debate -- Revolution Comes to the Countryside -- Redistribute Land Soon -- Land to Its Original Owners -- Land for Those Who Work It -- Epilogue: Everyday Forms of Revolution.
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Subject Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (Bolivia) -- History -- 20th century.
Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (Bolivia)
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Nationalism -- Bolivia -- History -- 20th century.
Nationalism.
Bolivia.
Land reform -- Bolivia -- History -- 20th century.
Land reform.
Bolivia -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Politics and government.
HISTORY / General.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: 9780822946656 0822946653 (DLC) 2020053061 (OCoLC)1191685255
ISBN 9780822988106 (electronic book)
0822988100 (electronic book)
9780822946656
0822946653