¡Vamos a Avanzar!: The Chaco War and Bolivia's Political Transformation, 1899-1952

by Robert Niebuhr

In Vamos a avanzar Robert Niebuhr argues that despite widespread corruption, a lack of skills, and failed policies, Bolivian leaders in the first half of the twentieth century created a modern state because of the profound role of warfare over the Chaco. When President Daniel Salamanca hastily thrust his isolated and poverty-stricken country into the devastation of the Chaco War against Paraguay in 1932, he unleashed a number of forces that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496207785
• ISBN13: 9781496207784
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"