Carmen Soliz is assistant professor of Latin American history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a Bolivian historian.
Fields of Revolution is an outstanding work of historical
scholarship. It will change our understanding not only of the
agrarian reform itself but also of the wider character and legacy
of the 1952 National Revolution in Bolivia. Based on diligent and
discerning archival research, this study shows the importance of
regional comparison as well as identifying key features of
differentiation within the rural population. As a result, the book
qualifies much of the established historiography, not least over
the role of the MNR in rural affairs. Independent in outlook and
fair-minded in appraisal, this is a study that should be read by
everyone interested in modern Bolivia.--James Dunkerley, Queen Mary
University of London
A ground-breaking study! This book explores the fascinating
complexities of Bolivia's historic 1953 Agrarian Reform. Solíz
argues that land reform was not a project of state engineering, but
sprang from the deep furrows of indigenous and peasant struggles
for land rights over many decades. Working in virgin archives, she
also examines the cultural terrain, in which peasant unions,
comunarios, and ex-landowners argued over their rightful stakes in
the post-revolutionary order. Deeply researched and beautifully
written, Fields of Revolution is essential reading for Latin
America scholars of revolution, agrarian movements, and peasant
studies.--Brooke Larson, Stony Brook University, and author of
Trials of Nation Making. Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the
Andes, 1810-1910.
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