A Revolution for our Rights: Indigenous Struggles in Bolivia

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A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952
By Laura Gotkowitz
2008, Duke University Press
398 pages

THIS IS A carefully crafted history of the causes of the 1952 Bolivian Revolution that attributes significant importance to indigenous struggles for land that characterised much rural development earlier in the 20th century. This hidden rural revolution preceded the events of 1952 and brought together demands for equality with those for radical changes to landholding under the same revolutionary banner. Firmly grounded in primary sources, A Revolution for Our Rights is an important contribution to Andean anthropology and history. – GO’T

Categories: Bolivia, South America

Gavin O'Toole

I've spent much of my career in journalism and newspaper production: worked as a sub-editor and in other production roles at major UK newspapers including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer and the Daily Telegraph / Sunday Telegraph. Covering business, finance, regulation, Latin American affairs and more. As a journalist and freelance writer I've contributed to many publications: work appears in outlets such as Al Jazeera, Public Finance, Global Government Forum, among others. Also an an award-winning writer of short stories and novelist. 

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