Article: Gerlach, Allen. Indians, Oil, and Politics: a Recent History of Ecuador.(Book Review)

Gerlach, Allen. Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2003. 286 pp. Cloth, $65; paper, $23.95.

The anthropologist David E. Stuart describes Ecuador as "like living in a Russian novel, only worse." It is certainly true that no South American country has experienced a more tumultuous history than Ecuador. From the formation of the first Republic in 1830, when General Juan Jose Flores led the break with Gran Colombia, until the summer of 2000, when Allen Gerlach's account breaks off, Ecuador suffered through nineteen different constitutions and 113 presidents, interim presidents, and governing juntas--an ...

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