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Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics
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About Revolutionary Horizons: Past And Present In
Product Description A comprehensive study of insurrection in Bolivia, from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In an age of military neoliberalism, social movements and center-Left coalition governments have advanced across South America, sparking hope for radical change in a period otherwise characterized by regressive imperial and anti-imperial politics. Nowhere do the limits and possibilities of popular advance stand out as they do in Bolivia, the most heavily indigenous country in the Americas.Focused on the history of indigenous and national-popular struggles for self-government from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, Revolutionary Horizons also traces the rise to power of Evo Morales's new administration, whose announced goals are to end imperial domination and internal colonialism through nationalization of the country's oil and gas reserves. In doing so, Hylton and Thompson provide an excavation of Andean revolution, whose successive layers of historical sedimentation comprise the subsoil, loam, landscape, and vistas for current political struggles in Bolivia. Revolutionary Horizons offers a unique and timely window onto the challenges faced by the Morales government and by the South American continent alike. Review Hylton and Thomson have produced a very timely and effective book, which places the contemporary revolutionary cycle in Bolivia (of 2000-2005) in the context of a much longer history of revolutionary moments. --Sian Lazar, A ContracorrienteLocates the roots of the contemporary revolutionary moment--one that has brought about the collapse of the once triumphant neoliberal model--within an extended history of uprisings in the...territory that is now Bolivia. --Tian-Ann Shih, EthnohistoryThe most important and enlightening of recent contributions to the study of indigenous movements and the left in Bolivia. --Jeffrey R. Webber, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies From the Back Cover Praise for Forrest Hylton's Evil Hour in Colombia:"A brilliant navigation of a complex and tragic history." Mike DavisPraise for Sinclair Thomson's We Alone Will Rule:"One of the most brilliant books written on colonial Andean history in years." Steve Stern, author of Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenges of Spanish Conquest About the Author Forrest Hylton is the author of Evil Hour in Colombia and Vanishing Acts: A Tragedy.
