Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia

by Kevin A. Young

Book Overview

Conflicts over subterranean resources, particularly tin, oil, and natural gas, have driven Bolivian politics for nearly a century. "Resource nationalism"--the conviction that resource wealth should be used for the benefit of the "nation"--has often united otherwise disparate groups, including mineworkers, urban workers, students, war veterans, and middle-class professionals, and propelled an indigenous union leader, Evo Morales, into the presidency...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477311521
• ISBN13: 9781477311523
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"