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Appendix Bibliographic Sources and Information on Bolivia Early on we decided that we wanted to provide a streamlined,accessible story that used Félix’s life to frame recent Bolivian history. At the same time, we recognized the need to provide further information for a nonspecialized English audience requiring more background.The chapter introductions and text boxes provide the context and avoid including notes that would break up the flow of the story.We hope this brief bibliographic note that focuses on the literature in English will motivate interested readers to learn more about the country, and, at the same time, we are confident that university students or researchers interested in specific topics can easily generate detailed bibliographies. Two general histories of Bolivia provide a rapid introduction to the country. Klein (2003), although primarily an economic history, remains the standard English history text on Bolivia. Undergraduate and high school students may find Morales’s (2010) book a more engaging read. For those who want to delve deeper into colonial history, Larson (1988) and Thomson (2002) provide fascinating studies. Much of the Republic and the roots of the 1952 revolution are explored in detail by Laura Gotkowitz (2007). Her work complements Silvia Rivera’s (1987) seminal description of indigenous resistance. James Dunkerley’s (1984) masterful work offers the most comprehensive study of Bolivian politics from the 1952 revolution to the country’s return to civilian government in 1982. And the volume edited by Grindle and Domingo (2003) provides an interesting assessment of the Bolivian revolution fifty years on. Our book (Kohl and Farthing 2006) offers a thorough synthesis of the neoliberal period (1985 to 2005). Nash (1993) is perhaps the most widely read ethnography of life in the mines.While we used an excerpt of Gall’s (1966) more journalistic account of Siglo XX to give a feel of the place and time, his detailed history of the mines (1974a and 1974b) fills in far more detail. Chungara’s autobiography 212 (1978) is a classic testimonial that documents the life of a leader of the Housewives Committee of Siglo XX, as well as the hunger strike that brought down the government of Hugo Banzer in 1978. Crabtree et al. (1987) provide an insightful analysis that shows how global economic processes affected the demand for primary materials such as Bolivian tin and therefore the country’s miners.The role of Bolivia’s left-wing parties is detailed by POR activist Guillermo Lora (1977), Alexander and Parker (2005), and John (2009). The 2000 water war in Cochabamba, which transformed Bolivia from the poster child for structural adjustment to the inspiration of the antiglobalization movement, has generated a spate of recent books. Olivera (2004) describes the water war;his account is complemented in that volume by analytical essays by Alvaro García Linera, who entered office as Evo Morales’ vice president in 2006, and Raquel Gutiérrez-Aguilar. Crabtree (2005) provides a concise summary of social movement struggles up to Morales’s election, and Shultz and Draper (2008) provide more detailed information. For a discussion of Morales’s first term in office, see Latin American Perspectives (vol. 38, no. 3 [2010] and vol. 38, no. 4 [2010]—both special issues on Bolivia). The story about political struggle in El Alto that Félix tells is very much recounted from the viewpoint of the miners rather than the thousands of campesinos who have migrated there from the countryside. For a broader view of social movements and struggles in El Alto, we recommend four sources: Gill (2000),Arbona (2007, 2008), and Lazar (2008). While this story focuses on the highlands, for a more complete understanding of the country, it is important to consider books written about the eastern lowland regions, such as Postero (2007) and Gustafson (2009), which make an important contribution to understanding more pieces of Bolivia’s complex society. bibliographic sources and information on bolivia ...

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