"In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "March to the East." They encouraged hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Bolivians to relocate from the "overcrowded" Andes to the tropical lowlands, but also welcomed surprising transnational migrant streams, including horse-and-buggy Mennonites from Mexico and displaced Okinawans from across the Pacific. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of these migrations on the environment of the South American interior"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Moving pictures : narrative, aesthetic, and Bolivia's frontier imaginary
Military bases and rubber tires : Okinawans and Mennonites at the margins of nation, revolution, and empire, 1952-1968
Abandonment issues : speaking to the state from the Andes and Amazonia, 1952-1968
To minister or administer : faith and frontier development in revolutionary and authoritarian Bolivia, 1952-1982
A sort of backwoods guerrilla warfare : Mexican Mennonites and the South American soy boom, 1967-present.
ISBN
9781469656090 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
1469656094 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
9781469656106 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
1469656108 (paperback ; : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2019044541
OCLC
1119520106
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