The Litoral and the Bolivian State facing the challenge of guano

In this paper, my aim is to analyze, on the one hand, the relationship between the Bolivian State and guano from Atacama and the performance of the monopolistic legislation and economic contracts for its exploitation with two British companies; on the other hand, the local response to the deployment of the central authority in its territory and the advance of the capitalist economic frontier over a resource for which there was a long tradition of exploitation. What resulted was a clash of models, and a struggle between legitimacies to impose their own project to manage the guano business and its benefits.