In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the 'March to the East'. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of this migration on the environment of the South American interior.

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Moving pictures : narrative, aesthetic, and Bolivia's frontier imaginary -- Military bases and rubber tires : Okinawans and Mennonites at the margins of nation, revolution, and empire, 1952-1968 -- Abandonment issues : speaking to the state from the Andes and Amazonia, 1952-1968 -- To minister or administer : faith and frontier development in revolutionary and authoritarian Bolivia, 1952-1982 -- A sort of backwoods guerrilla warfare : Mexican Mennonites and the South American soy boom, 1967-present.