Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on December 9, 2008
Community Development Journal 2009 44(1):128-130; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsn036
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Revolutionary Horizons: Past and Present in Bolivian Politics
Temple University, USA; email: bkohl@temple.edu
email: lindaclarefarthing@hotmail.com
Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson, with a prologue by Adolfo Gilly, Verso, London and New York, 2007, 192 pp., ISBN 978-1-84467-097-0, £12.99.
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Revolutionary Horizons, by Forrest Hylton and Sinclair Thomson, is a highly readable work that contributes to understanding the recent events that have placed Bolivia, once erased from the map by Queen Victoria following the expulsion of her emissary in the nineteenth century, in the spotlight of observers of progressive movements around the world. With an insightful introduction by Adolfo Gilly, the book provides an accessible analysis of the events that led to the inauguration of Evo Morales, the first indigenous president in Bolivian history, in January 2006, ending the epoch of Andean apartheid.
More than a simple recounting,