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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
West Virginia Univ Pr
Publication date
December 1, 2016
Pages
224
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781943665464
ISBN-10
194366546X
Dimensions
0 by 5 by 8 in.
Original list price
$79.99
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Boliviaâs contentious twentieth-century history. Boliviaâs oil, Cote argues, instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin American state, and shaped both the course and the consequences of Boliviaâs transformative National Revolution of 1952. Oil and natural gas continue to steer the country under the government of Evo Morales, who renationalized hydrocarbons in 2006 and has used revenues from the sector to reduce poverty and increase infrastructure development in South Americaâs poorest country.
The book advances chronologically from Boliviaâs earliest petroleum pioneers in 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. While Bolivia is best known for its tin mining, Oil and Nation makes the case that nationalist reformers viewed hydrocarbons and the state oil company as a way to modernize the country away from the tin monoculture and its powerful backers and toward an oil-powered future.
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The book advances chronologically from Boliviaâs earliest petroleum pioneers in 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. While Bolivia is best known for its tin mining, Oil and Nation makes the case that nationalist reformers viewed hydrocarbons and the state oil company as a way to modernize the country away from the tin monoculture and its powerful backers and toward an oil-powered future.
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Hardcover
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from West Virginia Univ Pr (December 1, 2016)
9781943665464 | details & prices | 224 pages | List price $79.99
About: Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Boliviaâs contentious twentieth-century history.
About: Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Boliviaâs contentious twentieth-century history.
Paperback
Reprint edition from West Virginia Univ Pr (December 1, 2016)
9781943665471 | details & prices | 224 pages | List price $26.99
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