Carmen Soliz is an associate professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Rossana Barragán is a professor at CIDES-UMSA La Paz and was a senior fellow researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam from 2011 to 2022.

"This exciting and ambitious volume showcases the latest thinking from leading scholars about natural resources--from land and water, coca, and rubber to silver, tin, lithium, oil, and gas--over centuries in the exceptional geographical setting of highland and lowland Bolivia. Anyone interested in the critical issues of extractivism, environmental degradation and regulation, (neo)liberal and nationalist political projects and economic policies, global commodity markets, and capitalist development generally will find here a wealth of material for historical and contemporary reflection."—Sinclair Thomson, author of We Alone Will Rule: Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One. Five Hundred Years of Land StruggleCarmen SolizChapter Two. From Silver to Tin to Lithium: Five Centuries of Mining in PotosíRossana BarragánChapter Three. Dispossession and Redistribution: Social Struggle over WaterSarah T. HinesChapter Four. The Rubber Boom and Indigenous Territories: Export Economy, Colonization, and the Bolivian Nation-StateJosé Octavio Orsag MolinaChapter Five. Smoothing the Contradictions: The Political History of Fossil FuelsKevin A. YoungChapter Six. A Brief History of Coca: From Pre-Columbian Trade to the Cocaine Economy;Thomas GrisaffiEpilogue One. The Specter of El Dorado and Extractivism in Bolivian HistoryMyrna SantiagoEpilogue Two. Commodity Frontiers in Historical Perspective: Lessons from BoliviaUlbe BosmaBibliographyList of Contributors

Carmen Soliz is an associate professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Rossana Barragán is a professor at CIDES-UMSA La Paz and was a senior fellow researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam from 2011 to 2022.

"This exciting and ambitious volume showcases the latest thinking from leading scholars about natural resources--from land and water, coca, and rubber to silver, tin, lithium, oil, and gas--over centuries in the exceptional geographical setting of highland and lowland Bolivia. Anyone interested in the critical issues of extractivism, environmental degradation and regulation, (neo)liberal and nationalist political projects and economic policies, global commodity markets, and capitalist development generally will find here a wealth of material for historical and contemporary reflection."—Sinclair Thomson, author of We Alone Will Rule: Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One. Five Hundred Years of Land StruggleCarmen SolizChapter Two. From Silver to Tin to Lithium: Five Centuries of Mining in PotosíRossana BarragánChapter Three. Dispossession and Redistribution: Social Struggle over WaterSarah T. HinesChapter Four. The Rubber Boom and Indigenous Territories: Export Economy, Colonization, and the Bolivian Nation-StateJosé Octavio Orsag MolinaChapter Five. Smoothing the Contradictions: The Political History of Fossil FuelsKevin A. YoungChapter Six. A Brief History of Coca: From Pre-Columbian Trade to the Cocaine Economy;Thomas GrisaffiEpilogue One. The Specter of El Dorado and Extractivism in Bolivian HistoryMyrna SantiagoEpilogue Two. Commodity Frontiers in Historical Perspective: Lessons from BoliviaUlbe BosmaBibliographyList of Contributors

Carmen Soliz is an associate professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Rossana Barragán is a professor at CIDES-UMSA La Paz and was a senior fellow researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam from 2011 to 2022.

"This exciting and ambitious volume showcases the latest thinking from leading scholars about natural resources--from land and water, coca, and rubber to silver, tin, lithium, oil, and gas--over centuries in the exceptional geographical setting of highland and lowland Bolivia. Anyone interested in the critical issues of extractivism, environmental degradation and regulation, (neo)liberal and nationalist political projects and economic policies, global commodity markets, and capitalist development generally will find here a wealth of material for historical and contemporary reflection."—Sinclair Thomson, author of We Alone Will Rule: Native Andean Politics in the Age of Insurgency

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One. Five Hundred Years of Land StruggleCarmen SolizChapter Two. From Silver to Tin to Lithium: Five Centuries of Mining in PotosíRossana BarragánChapter Three. Dispossession and Redistribution: Social Struggle over WaterSarah T. HinesChapter Four. The Rubber Boom and Indigenous Territories: Export Economy, Colonization, and the Bolivian Nation-StateJosé Octavio Orsag MolinaChapter Five. Smoothing the Contradictions: The Political History of Fossil FuelsKevin A. YoungChapter Six. A Brief History of Coca: From Pre-Columbian Trade to the Cocaine Economy;Thomas GrisaffiEpilogue One. The Specter of El Dorado and Extractivism in Bolivian HistoryMyrna SantiagoEpilogue Two. Commodity Frontiers in Historical Perspective: Lessons from BoliviaUlbe BosmaBibliographyList of Contributors