Several scholars, including Joanne Rappaport, Sinclair Thomson, Gavin O'Toole, and Bret Gustafson, have praised Brooke Larson's book as a monumental, meticulously documented history of Indigenous education in twentieth-century Bolivia.

Elena McGrath's meticulous analysis uncovers the effects of mine nationalization—a policy typically examined from a macro and state-level perspective—on the daily lives of mining families.

Thomas Field Jr. reconstructs the untold story of USAID’s first years in Bolivia, including the 1964 military coup d’état. Field demonstrates that Bolivia’s turn toward an anti-communist, development-oriented dictatorship was the logical and practical culmination of the military-led modernization paradigm that provided the liberal underpinnings of Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress.

Elizabeth Shesko studies coercion and citizenship in the Bolivian Barracks. She argues conscription evolved into a pact between the state and society. Shesko contends that state formation built around military service has been characterized in Bolivia by multiple layers of negotiation and accommodation.

In this episode, historian Nicole Pacino discusses the rural healthcare policies of the Bolivian Revolution, with a particular focus on their impact on women.

Kevin A. Young reveals that Bolivia became a key site in a global battle among economic models, with grassroots coalitions demanding nationalist and egalitarian alternatives to market capitalism.

Jose Gordillo reveals the active political role played by the Cochabamba Valley peasants during Bolivia's 1952-64 revolutionary period. The book blends sociological and anthropological methods to uncover peasants’ revolutionary experience

Natalie Kimball explores how women decided whether to continue or terminate their pregnancies and the medical practices to which women recurred in their search for reproductive health care between the early 1950s and 2010. It demonstrates that, far from constituting private events with little impact on the public sphere, women’s intimate experiences contributed to changing policies and services in reproductive health in Bolivia.