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Oil and Nation: A History of Bolivia’s Petroleum Sector (Energy and Society)

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Oil and Nation places petroleum on the center of Bolivia’s contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia’s oil, Cote argues, instigated the largest war in Latin The united states within the 1900s, provoked the first nationalization of an immense foreign company by a Latin American state, and shaped both the course and the consequences of Bolivia’s transformative National Revolution of 1952. Oil and natural gas continue to influence the country under the federal government of Evo Morales, who renationalized hydrocarbons in 2006 and has used revenues from the sector to scale back poverty and increase infrastructure development in South The united states’s poorest country.

The book advances chronologically from Bolivia’s earliest petroleum pioneers within the nineteenth century until the present, inserting oil into historical debates about Bolivian ethnic, racial, and environmental issues, and within development strategies by different administrations. Even as Bolivia is very best known for its tin mining, Oil and Nation makes the case that nationalist reformers viewed hydrocarbons and the state oil company so to modernize the country away from the tin monoculture and its powerful backers and toward an oil-powered future.
 

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