The making of modern Colombia : a nation in spite of itself /
Colombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous--as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers--makes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It tel...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
Univ. of California Press,
©1993.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- By Way of Introduction: Colombia as a Field of Study
- I. Indians and Spaniards
- 2. Severing the Ties with Spain (1781-1819)
- 3. The Gran Colombian Experiment (1819-1830)
- 4. Independent New Granada: A NationState, Not Yet a Nation (1830-1849)
- 5. The Nineteenth-Century Liberal Revolution (1849-1885)
- 6. The Regeneration and Its Aftermath: A Positivist-Conservative Reaction (1885-1904)
- 7. The New Age of Peace and Coffee (1904-1930)
- 8. The Liberal Republic (1930-1946)
- 9. The Era of the Violencia (1946-1957)
- 10. The National Front: Achievements and Failures (1958-1978)
- 11. The Latest Era: Confounding the Predictions (1978- )
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: Population
- Appendix B: Presidential Elections, 1826-I 990
- Notes
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index