... This chapter analyzes the political and social mobilization that led to Santa Elena’s separation from Guayas and creation of its own province in a context of significant political change at the national level termed “refoundational politics.” The process of provincialization combined political...

... centuries were sited around urban edges that were later filled in, although some were established within already densely developed areas, thereby altering the character of their neighborhood in significant ways. Focusing on the convents of Corpus Domini and Santa Lucia, which exemplify both foundation...

... The Memorandum of 1904, presented here, argued the case for the regional interests of the eastern lowlands. It was written by members of the intellectual and political elite of Santa Cruz who belonged to the Geographic Society, and was directed to the Bolivian National Congress during the period...

... The political career of Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz (1931–80) followed an unusual trajectory—from a privileged family background, he gradually developed a thoroughgoing critique of class domination and eventually took an uncompromising stand on behalf of socialism, democracy, and national self...

... Among the different social and political organizations that were formed as a reaction against the revolution of 1952, one of the more consequential and enduring was the Youth Union for Santa Cruz, based in the heart of urban Santa Cruz. The union, founded in October 1957, has served as both...