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Territorial rule in Colombia and the transformation of the Llanos Orientales / Jane M. Rausch.
Van Pelt Library F2281.L52 R38 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rausch, Jane M., 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Llanos.
- History.
- Llanos (Colombia and Venezuela)--History.
- Llanos (Colombia and Venezuela).
- Llanos--Colombia--History.
- Llanos (Colombia and Venezuela)--Social life and customs.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Colombia.
- Colombia--Politics and government.
- Colombia.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 186 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
- Summary:
- An examination of the Llanos Orientales of Colombia (an area that, up to the 1980s, could still be considered frontier) and the effects of the discovery of petroleum in the region and the rapid growth that ensued.
- Contents:
- The Llanos frontier on the eve of la violencia
- The violencia and its impact on the Llanos, 1946-1953
- Rojas Pinilla and the pacification of the Llanos, 1953-1957
- Territorial rule during the national front and its aftermath, 1958-1978
- The contemporary era, 1978-2010
- Changing concepts of the Llanos frontier in the last half of the twentieth century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813044668
- 0813044669
- OCLC:
- 827841514
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