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Oil and Nation - A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector (Hardcover)
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Oil and Nation - A History of Bolivia's Petroleum Sector (Hardcover)
Series: Energy and Society
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Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia's
contentious twentieth-century history. Bolivia's oil, Cote argues,
instigated the largest war in Latin America in the 1900s, provoked
the first nationalization of a major foreign company by a Latin
American state, and shaped both the course and the consequences of
Bolivia's transformative National Revolution of 1952. Oil and
natural gas continue to steer the country under the government of
Evo Morales, who renationalized hydrocarbons in 2006 and has used
revenues from the sector to reduce poverty and increase
infrastructure development in South America's poorest country. The
book advances chronologically from Bolivia's earliest petroleum
pioneers in the nineteenth century until the present, inserting oil
into historical debates about Bolivian ethnic, racial, and
environmental issues, and within development strategies by
different administrations. While Bolivia is best known for its tin
mining, Oil and Nation makes the case that nationalist reformers
viewed hydrocarbons and the state oil company as a way to modernize
the country away from the tin monoculture and its powerful backers
and toward an oil-powered future.
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