Landscape of migration mobility and environmental change on Bolivia's tropical frontier, 1952 to the present / Ben Nobbs-Thiessen.
| Author/creator | Nobbs-Thiessen, Ben |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020] |
| Description | xvi, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford UNC Press Titles |
| Subjects |
| Series | Flows, migrations, and exchanges Flows, migrations, and exchanges. ^A1347336 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-303) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019044541 |
| ISBN | 9781469656090 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781469656106 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |