Carmen Soliz is assistant professor of Latin American history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a Bolivian historian.
"A ground-breaking study! This book explores the fascinating
complexities of Bolivia's historic 1953 Agrarian Reform. Soliz
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
"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 of Bolivia's revolutionary experiment in
peasant land redistribution during the second half of the twentieth
century. . . . Soliz upends scholarly assumptions about where the
MNR's land reform policies came from, how transformative such
policies were for the countryside, and how popular forces engaged
with the state. . . . Engaging and incisive, this book is essential
reading for scholars of rural and agrarian history, indigenous
movements, revolutions, and would make a great addition to graduate
and undergraduate classrooms alike." --New Books
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