Colombia : a concise contemporary history / Michael J. LaRosa and Germán R. Mejía.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LaRosa, Michael (Michael J.), author.

Mejía, Germán R., 1954- author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colombia--History.

Colombia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 343 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]

Contents:

<P><span>Contents</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Acknowledgments</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Foreword by Pamela S. Murray</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Introduction</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>1 Origins</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span> Precedents</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Crisis of Empire</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>1810: The Development of the Juntas</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The First Republic (1811-1816)</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Final Battle against Absolutism</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Colombia: The Second Republic (1819-1830)</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The End of an Era of Change</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>2 The Colombian Nations</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Colombian Indigenous Population</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Afro-Colombian Population</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Other Colombians</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Demography and Its Numbers</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Colonizers and Settlers: The Nineteenth Century</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>An Urban Country: The Twentieth Century</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>3 The Dynamics of a Political Community</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Citizenship</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Rights</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Democratic Model and Politics</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Government</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Formation of Law</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>4 The Cadence of Unity</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Parties and the Nation</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Communion in Beliefs</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>A Common Memory</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>A Single Institutionalism</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>5 Conflict</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Spanish Evacuation</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Political Conflict in the Nineteenth Century</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Panama Separates</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Conflict in the Twentieth Century</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>La Violencia</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Insurgency Intervention</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Narco-violence</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Plan Colombia, 2000</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>6 Colombians Search for Peace </span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Nature of the Colombian Armed Conflict</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Stages of the War</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Peace Processes in Historic Perspective</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Future</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>7 Economic Unity</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Colonial Colombia Compared</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Monopoly and Political Problems in the Eighteenth Century</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Coffee</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Percolating Twenties</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Oil and Industrialization</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The National Front</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Modern Times</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Photo Essay</span><span></span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>8 A Common Space</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>From Horse Path to Highway</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Steamships and Railways</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Aerial Cables and Airplanes</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Mail and Communications Systems</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Print Media</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>9 Cultural Dynamism</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Sculpture and Painting</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Literature</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Theater</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Architecture</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Music</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>10 Daily Life</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Popular Religious Celebrations</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Sports</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Beauty Pageants</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Retaking the Colombian Urban Centers</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Radio, TV, and Soap Operas</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Gastronomy, Colombian Style</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>University Life in Colombia</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>11 Colombia and the World</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Early Days</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Canal Project</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>1928</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>World War II and Jorge Eliécer Gaitán</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Korea and the Alliance for Progress</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Pope Paul VI and the Close of the 1960s</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Contadora, Central America, and Colombia's Neighbors</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Uribe and Bush: Brothers in Arms</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Enter Santos</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>12 Colombians Abroad</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Preliminary Observations on Colombian Emigration</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Why Colombians Leave: A Historic Overview</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Bienvenidos</span><span> to Queens</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The 1980 Refugee Act</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Special Case of Colombians in Venezuela</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Remesas

</span><span>Sending Money Home</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Colombians Abroad: Some Names</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Some Sustained (and Unfortunate) Stereotypes</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Peace Process and the Great Reverse Migration?</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>13. 2016 and Beyond: ¡Basta Ya!</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Elusive Peace</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>The Pandemic</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Economic Data</span></p><p style="tab-stops:right 324pt;"><span>Migratory Processes </span></p><p style="ta

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 29, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: LaRosa, Michael Colombia

ISBN:

9781538177129

1538177129

Publisher Number:

40031940228

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