Author: Robert Raine Geyer
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Death Trails in Bolivia to Faith Triumphant
Author: Robert Raine Geyer
Publisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Publisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Landscape of Migration
Author: Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469656116
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
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." In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation's vast "undeveloped" Amazonian frontier into farmland, hoping to achieve food security, territorial integrity, and demographic balance. To do so, 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. As he reveals, one of the "migrants" with the greatest impact was the soybean, which Bolivia embraced as a profitable cash crop while eschewing earlier goals of food security, creating a new model for extractive export agriculture. Half a century of colonization would transform the small regional capital of Santa Cruz de la Sierra into Bolivia's largest city, and the diverging stories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants complicate our understandings of tradition, modernity, foreignness, and belonging in the heart of a rising agro-industrial empire.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469656116
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
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." In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation's vast "undeveloped" Amazonian frontier into farmland, hoping to achieve food security, territorial integrity, and demographic balance. To do so, 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. As he reveals, one of the "migrants" with the greatest impact was the soybean, which Bolivia embraced as a profitable cash crop while eschewing earlier goals of food security, creating a new model for extractive export agriculture. Half a century of colonization would transform the small regional capital of Santa Cruz de la Sierra into Bolivia's largest city, and the diverging stories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants complicate our understandings of tradition, modernity, foreignness, and belonging in the heart of a rising agro-industrial empire.
Catalog of the Latin American Collection
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American Collection
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1656
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1656
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Missionary Biography
Author: Missionary Research Library (New York, N.Y.)
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Publisher:
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Books
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Doors to Latin America
Author:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
American Book Publishing Record
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
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Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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