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Forgotten peace : reform, violence, and the making of contemporary Colombia / Robert A. Karl.
LIBRA HN310.Z9 V54 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karl, Robert A., 1981- author.
- Series:
- Violence in Latin American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violence--Colombia--History--20th century.
- Violence.
- Social problems.
- Peace-building.
- History.
- Colombia.
- Peace-building--Colombia--History--20th century.
- Social problems--Colombia--20th century.
- Insurgency--Colombia.
- Insurgency.
- Colombia--History--1946-1974.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 321 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. In this book, Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, provincial elites, and urban intellectuals during a crucial conjuncture that saw reformist optimism transform into alienation. In addition to offering a sweeping reinterpretation of Colombian history--including the most detailed account of the origins of the FARC insurgency in any language--Karl provides a Colombian vantage on global processes of democratic transition, development, and memory formation in the 1950s and 1960s. Sweeping in scope, Forgotten Peace challenges contemporary theories of violence in Latin America."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: peace and violence in Colombian history
- Messenger of a new Colombia
- Encounters with violence, 1957-1958
- The making of the creole peace, 1958-1960
- Peace and violence, 1959-1960
- Reformist paths, 1960-1964
- Books and bandits, 1962-1964
- Confrontation, 1963-1966
- Epilogue: the making of La violencia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Karl, Robert A., 1981- author. Forgotten peace.
- ISBN:
- 9780520293939
- 9780520293922
- 0520293924
- 0520293932
- OCLC:
- 960153244
- Publisher Number:
- 99971779586
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