Research Studies and Publications about Bolivia




The Bolivian Collection has been a main source of information for numerous research studies and publications. Several of them have been written by researchers associated with the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.


Andrade, Victor. My mission for revolutionary Bolivia, 1944-1962. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976

Berman, Marc. Lukurmata: household archaeology in prehispanic Bolivia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 18994


Blasier, Cole. The hovering giant: U.S. responses to revolutionary change in Latin America Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985

Gamarra, Eduardo. Political stability, democratization, adn the Bolivian National Congress. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Pittsburgh, 1987

Langer, Erick and Zulema Bass Warner de Ruiz. (Editors). Historia de Tarija: corpus documental Vol. I Tarija: Universidad Autónoma Juan Misael Saracho, 1989

Langer, Erick. Economic change and rural resistance in southern Bolivia, 1880-1930 Standford: Standford University Press, 1989

Langer, Erick. Rural society and land consolidation in an declining economy: Chuquisaca, Bolivia: 1880-1930. Published in 1964


MacLeod, Murdo. Bolivia and its social literature before and after the Chaco War: a historical study of social and literary revolution. Ph.D. Dissertation. University Microfilms, 1975


Malloy, James and Richard Thorn (Editors). Beyond the revolution: Bolivia since 1952. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971

Malloy, James. Bolivia: a study in revolution. 1967

Malloy, James. Bolivia: the uncompleted revolution. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970

Malloy, James. Bolivia: la revolucion inconclusa. La Paz, Bolivia: CERES, 1989

Malloy, James. Bolivia's MNR: a study of a national popular movement in Latin America. Buffalo, Council of International Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1971

Malloy, James. El MNR boliviano: estudio de un movimiento popular nacionalista en América Latina Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Center for Latin American Studies, 1970

Malloy, James / Eduardo Gamarra. Revolution and reaction: Bolivia, 1964-1985 New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1988



Mariaca, Guillermo. La palabra autoritaria: el discurso literario del populismo La Paz, Bolivia: Tiahuanakos Art, 1990

Mariaca, Guillermo. (Coordinador). Testimonios de un desencuentro: politicas culturales en Bolivia. Bolivia: Parlamento Latinoamericano, camara de Diputados de Bolivia, 1989


Mitre, Eduardo. Selección y estudio Arbol y la Piedra: poetas contemporáneos de Bolivia. Caracas: Monte Avila, 1986


Paz Soldán, Alba María. Una articulación simbólica de lo nacional: Juan de la Rosa de Nataniel Aguirre. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Pittsburgh, 1986


Sanabria, Harry. The coca boom and rural social change in Bolivia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993

Sanabria, Harry. Social and economic change in a Bolivian highland valley peasant impact of migration and coca. 1989


Sanjinés C., Javier. Lectura política de la nueva narrativa boliviana: al épica de la guerrilla. Pittsburgh, 1982

Sanjines C., Javier. (Editor) Tendencias actuales en la literatura boliviana. Minneapolis: Institute for the Study of Ideologies and Literature, 1985


Thorn, Richard S. Agricultural taxation in Bolivia. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1984