{"product_id":"we-created-chavez-9780822354529","title":"We Created Chávez","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis history of Venezuelan politics from below tells how militants, students, women, Afro-indigeneous peoples, and the working-class brought about Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution and, ultimately, brought Hugo Chávez to power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWe Created Chávez\u003c\/i\u003e provides a systematic, bottom-up approach to Venezuelan politics from 1958 to the present. It offers a much-needed new perspective on Hugo Chávez's rise to power. Writing in a lively style and demonstrating a thorough command of the issues and personalities in recent Venezuelan history, George Ciccariello-Maher has produced a book essential to understanding the phenomenon of 'Chavismo,' which has attracted widespread interest throughout the world.\"\u003cb\u003e—Steve Ellner\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eRethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chávez Phenomenon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the United States, accounts of Venezuela have been fixated on the figure of Hugo Chávez. \u003ci\u003eWe Created Chávez\u003c\/i\u003e breaks with this obsession, instead showing the dynamic and contradictory relationship that exists between Venezuela's president and the social forces that gave rise to and sustain the government. It is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the internal dynamics of social change underway in Venezuela today.\"\u003cb\u003e—Miguel Tinker Salas\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ciccariello-Maher’s history of the Venezuelan left is essential to understanding the Chávez era.” -- Dorothy Kronick * The New Republic *\u003cbr\u003e“Terrific.” -- Greg Grandin * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003e“[A] crisply written social and political history of the critical decades leading up to Chávez's election in 1998. . . . For those who want to see the revolution continue, Ciccariello-Maher has made a critical contribution to our understanding, which is in and of itself enough to recommend this book without reservation. But more than that, \u003ci\u003eWe Created Chávez\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly demonstrates how social history scholarship can mine the lived experiences of rank-and-file activists and radical leaders for precious stones, and then set those gems in a visible and rigorous theoretical frame that allows us to see history in motion.” -- Todd Chretien * Socialist Worker *\u003cbr\u003e“I've been looking for this book for years.” -- Steve Henshall * Socialist Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"In addition to providing readers with an irreplaceable genealogy of the Revolutionary Left in Venezuela and its role in the making of the present, \u003ci\u003eWe Created Chávez\u003c\/i\u003e deftly illustrates the tensions between constituent and constituted power that make the Bolivarian Revolution a dialectical process rather than a presidential term in office. \u003ci\u003eWe Created Chávez\u003c\/i\u003e is also a masterful contribution to a thankfully growing body of work responding to dominant portrayals of the Bolivarian process in Venezuela enraptured or enraged by the figure of \u003ci\u003eel Comandante\u003c\/i\u003e.” -- Donald V. Kingsbury * Theory \u0026amp; Event *\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eWe Created Chávez\u003c\/i\u003e, George Ciccariello-Maher offers a masterful ‘people’s history’ of Venezuela…. Through Ciccariello-Maher’s analysis, a Venezuela easily and often ignored both by academia and by the popular press becomes visible. It is this Venezuela from which post-Chávez popular politics will be forged; Ciccariello-Maher offers valuable insight into what the coming years may bring.” -- Erica S. Simmons * Latin American Politics and Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWe Created Chavez\u003c\/i\u003e is likely to be a point of reference for anyone seeking to assess chavismo as a seminal case of popular resistance to neoliberal globalization, as well as its relevance to twenty-first-century socialism.\" -- Daniel Hellinger * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"If . . . you want an engaging book that, in the service of a revolutionist mythos, narrates the actions and ideas of many people often neglected by scholars, you may appreciate \u003ci\u003eWe Created Chavez\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -- Jonathan Eastwood * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Map of Venezuela xii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. What People? Whose History? 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. A Guerrilla History 22\u003cbr\u003e 2. Reconnecting with the Masses 45\u003cbr\u003e 3. Birth of the \"Tupamaros\" 67\u003cbr\u003e First Interlude. The Caracazo: History Splits in Two 88\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sergio's Blood: Student Struggles from the University to the Streets 105\u003cbr\u003e 5. Manuelita's Boots: Women between Two Movements 126\u003cbr\u003e 6. JoséLeonardo's Body and the Collapse of \u003ci\u003eMestizaje\u003c\/i\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e Second Interlude. Every Eleventh Has Its Thirteenth 166\u003cbr\u003e 7. Venezuelan Workers: Aristocracy or Revolutionary Class? 180\u003cbr\u003e 8. Oligarchs Tremble! Peasant Struggles at the Margins of the State 200\u003cbr\u003e 9. A New Proletariat? Informal Labor and the Revolutionary Streets 218\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Dual Power against the Magical State 234\u003cbr\u003e Notes 257\u003cbr\u003e Index 307","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406075502935,"sku":"9780822354529","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822354529.jpg?v=1730494443","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/we-created-chavez-9780822354529","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}