Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : natural resources, economic visions, and US intervention in twentieth-century Bolivia
  • The road to resource nationalism : economic ideas and popular coalitions in La Paz, 1927-1952
  • A new type of Bolivian economy : competing visions, 1952-1956
  • The political economy of containment : privatization, austerity, and the MNR's shift to the right, 1955-1964
  • The battle for men's minds : economic paradigms, propaganda, and the iconography of revolution
  • The limits of containment : anti-austerity and resource nationalism in La Paz factories
  • Oil and nation : the crusade to save Bolivia's hydrocarbons.