| Description |
1 online resource (x, 341 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Melissa Crane Draper and Jim Shultz -- The Cochabamba water revolt and its aftermath / Jim Shultz -- A river turns black : Enron and Shell spread destruction across Bolivia's highlands / Christina Haglund -- Oil and gas : the elusive wealth beneath their feet / Gretchen Gordon and Aaron Luoma -- Lessons in blood and fire : the deadly consequences of IMF economics / Jim Shultz -- Economic strings : the politics of foreign debt / Nick Buxton -- Coca : the leaf at the center of the war on drugs / Caroline S. Conzelman [and others] -- Workers, leaders, and mothers : Bolivian women in a globalizing world / Melissa Crane Draper -- And those who left : portraits of a Bolivian exodus / Lily Whitesell |
| Summary |
Dignity and Defiance is a powerful, eyewitness account of Bolivia's decade-long rebellion against globalization imposed from abroad. Based on extensive interviews, this story comes alive with first-person accounts of a massive Enron/Shell oil spill from an elderly woman whose livelihood it threatens, of the young people who stood down a former dictator to take back control of their water, and of Bolivia's dramatic and successful challenge to the policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Featuring a substantial introduction, a conclusion, and introductions to each of the c |
| Notes |
Title from e-book title screen (viewed Dec. 18, 2009) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Globalization -- Economic aspects -- Bolivia
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Investments, Foreign -- Bolivia
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Globalization -- Economic aspects
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International economic relations
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Investments, Foreign
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| SUBJECT |
Bolivia -- Foreign economic relations
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| Subject |
Bolivia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shultz, Jim
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Draper, Melissa
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| LC no. |
2008029117 |
| ISBN |
9780520256996 |
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0520256999 |
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9780520256989 |
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0520256980 |
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1282360787 |
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9781282360785 |
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9780520942660 |
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0520942663 |
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9786612360787 |
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661236078X |
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