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Insurgent Confederation, "Race War," and Liberal State Formation in the Bolivian Federal War of 1899

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ID4440064
AuthorsForrest Hylton (0000-0001-9826-022X, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume110
Issue2
Pages487-503
Publication date2011-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00382876-1162552
OpenAlexW2315917934
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Focusing on late nineteenth-century insurgent movements for self-government, sovereignty, and political representation in Bolivia in 1899, this essay explores issues of regional antagonism, elite fragmentation, and incipient class divisions within Indian peasant communities. I discuss the theoretical and methodological stakes involved in analyzing the Bolivian Federal War of 1899 and detail existing historiographic debate. Then I explore the geographic and historical coordinates of the Indian community insurgency, leadership, and political representation, as well as revolutionary consciousness. Finally, I describe how victorious Liberal elites used the trope of race war to criminalize community insurgents, whose leaders were subject to trial, imprisonment, and execution, and stress the importance of linking national political struggles to local-level conflicts and indigenous visions of political alternatives. I caution against reading insurgent projects in the Federal War of 1899 in terms of subaltern nationalism

Elite · Insurgency · Nationalism · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Historical Studies in Latin America · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America

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