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A Concise History of Bolivia (Cambridge Concise Histories)

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Bolivia is an bizarre high-altitude society created by imperial conquests and native adaptations, and it remains these days the most Indian of the American republics, yet it fully participates on the earth economy. It has also seen the most social and economic mobility of Indian and mestizo populations in Latin The us. These are some of the themes analyzed in this historical survey. 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 ev¬olution 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 because the National Revolution of 1952 and the return of democracy in 1982. These changes have included the introduction of universal education and the upward thrust of the mestizos and Indian populations to political power for the first time in national history. Containing an up to date bibliography, A Concise History of Bolivia remains an very important text for courses in Latin American history and politics. The second one 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 Bolivia society, politics, and economy.

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