Forgotten Peace : Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia / Robert A. Karl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karl, Robert A., author.

Series:

Violence in Latin American history.

Violence in Latin American History ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Colombia--History--20th century.

Violence.

Peace-building--Colombia--History--20th century.

Peace-building.

Social problems--Colombia--20th century.

Social problems.

Insurgency--Colombia.

Insurgency.

Colombia--History--1946-1974.

Colombia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. 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. Broad in scope, Forgotten Peace challenges contemporary theories of violence in Latin America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Peace and Violence in Colombian History

1. Messenger of a New Colombia

2. Encounters with Violence, 1957-1958

3. The Making of the Creole Peace, 1958-1960

4. Peace and Violence, 1959-1960

5. Reformist Paths, 1960-1964

6. Books and Bandits, 1962-1964

7. Confrontation, 1963-1966

Epilogue: The Making of "La Violencia"

A Note on Citations, Institutional Abbreviations, and Archives

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520967243

0520967240

OCLC:

960448861