Author: Rex A. Hudson
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780844495026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Treats in concise and objective manner the dominant historical, social, political, economic, and national security aspects of contemporary Colombia. Chapter bibliographies appear at the end of the book.
Colombia: A Country Study
Author: Rex A. Hudson
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780844495026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Treats in concise and objective manner the dominant historical, social, political, economic, and national security aspects of contemporary Colombia. Chapter bibliographies appear at the end of the book.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780844495026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Treats in concise and objective manner the dominant historical, social, political, economic, and national security aspects of contemporary Colombia. Chapter bibliographies appear at the end of the book.
Mapping the Country of Regions
Author: Nancy P. Appelbaum
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The commission's mandate was to define and map the young republic and its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of the commission, Nancy P. Appelbaum focuses on the geographers' fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than thirty provinces in order to delineate the country's territorial and racial composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argues, contributed to a long-lasting national imaginary. What jumps out of the commission's array of reports, maps, sketches, and paintings is a portentous tension between the marked differences that appeared before the eyes of the geographers in the field and the visions of sameness to which they aspired. The commissioners and their patrons believed that a prosperous republic required a unified and racially homogeneous population, but the commission's maps and images paradoxically emphasized diversity and helped create a "country of regions." By privileging the whiter inhabitants of the cool Andean highlands over those of the boiling tropical lowlands, the commission left a lasting but problematic legacy for today's Colombians.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The commission's mandate was to define and map the young republic and its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of the commission, Nancy P. Appelbaum focuses on the geographers' fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than thirty provinces in order to delineate the country's territorial and racial composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argues, contributed to a long-lasting national imaginary. What jumps out of the commission's array of reports, maps, sketches, and paintings is a portentous tension between the marked differences that appeared before the eyes of the geographers in the field and the visions of sameness to which they aspired. The commissioners and their patrons believed that a prosperous republic required a unified and racially homogeneous population, but the commission's maps and images paradoxically emphasized diversity and helped create a "country of regions." By privileging the whiter inhabitants of the cool Andean highlands over those of the boiling tropical lowlands, the commission left a lasting but problematic legacy for today's Colombians.
Cali, Colombia
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821351741
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Annotation The aim of this report is to summarize the analytical work carried out as part of the City Development Strategy (CDS) process and to put forth for further discussion an initial set of recommendations to help the city recover from its present crisis.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821351741
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Annotation The aim of this report is to summarize the analytical work carried out as part of the City Development Strategy (CDS) process and to put forth for further discussion an initial set of recommendations to help the city recover from its present crisis.
The Making of Modern Colombia
Author: David Bushnell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520913906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
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 tells the remarkable story of a country that has consistently defied modern Latin American stereotypes—a country where military dictators are virtually unknown, where the political left is congenitally weak, and where urbanization and industrialization have spawned no lasting populist movement. There is more to Colombia than the drug trafficking and violence that have recently gripped the world's attention. In the face of both cocaine wars and guerrilla conflict, the country has maintained steady economic growth as well as a relatively open and democratic government based on a two-party system. It has also produced an impressive body of art and literature. David Bushnell traces the process of state-building in Colombia from the struggle for independence, territorial consolidation, and reform in the nineteenth century to economic development and social and political democratization in the twentieth. He also sheds light on the modern history of Latin America as a whole.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520913906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
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 tells the remarkable story of a country that has consistently defied modern Latin American stereotypes—a country where military dictators are virtually unknown, where the political left is congenitally weak, and where urbanization and industrialization have spawned no lasting populist movement. There is more to Colombia than the drug trafficking and violence that have recently gripped the world's attention. In the face of both cocaine wars and guerrilla conflict, the country has maintained steady economic growth as well as a relatively open and democratic government based on a two-party system. It has also produced an impressive body of art and literature. David Bushnell traces the process of state-building in Colombia from the struggle for independence, territorial consolidation, and reform in the nineteenth century to economic development and social and political democratization in the twentieth. He also sheds light on the modern history of Latin America as a whole.
Colombia - A Country Study Guide
Author: Global Investment and Business Center, Inc. Staff
Publisher: International Business Publications USA
ISBN: 9780739714362
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher: International Business Publications USA
ISBN: 9780739714362
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Colombia Country Study Guide
Author: USA International Business Publications
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739778425
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739778425
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Colombia and World War I
Author: Jane M. Rausch
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739187740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This book offers an overview of the foreign and domestic policies of the administrations of José Vicente Concha (1914–1918) and Marco Fidel Suarez (1918–1923). It reveals that despite Colombia’s neutrality, World War I had a significant impact on the economic and political development of the country during the first half of an era often referred to as the Conservative Republic.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739187740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This book offers an overview of the foreign and domestic policies of the administrations of José Vicente Concha (1914–1918) and Marco Fidel Suarez (1918–1923). It reveals that despite Colombia’s neutrality, World War I had a significant impact on the economic and political development of the country during the first half of an era often referred to as the Conservative Republic.
Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales
Author: Jane M. Rausch
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813048443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Until the 1980s, Colombia's Llanos Orientales was a frontier, a vast tropical grassland plain east of the Andes. Populated mainly by indigenous people, it was considered "primitive" by much of the rest of Colombia. All of that changed when exploitable petroleum deposits were discovered, and the Llanos was transformed into the fastest growing region in the country. Rausch surveys sixty years of the area's history, from La Violencia—the civil war that rocked the country from 1948 to 1958—and the presidency of Rojas Pinilla, who helped pacify the Llanos in the late 1950s, to the National Front agreement between the Conservative and Liberal parties during the 1960s, its aftermath, and the rapid changes during the last half of the twentieth century. Using archival research and her own first-hand experiences, Jane Rausch examines the Colombian government's Llanos policies and the political, economic, and social changes they have brought about. This book brings to a strong conclusion Rausch's large-scale historical survey of a region: one sharing much in common with other South American frontiers and critical to Colombia's present and future.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813048443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Until the 1980s, Colombia's Llanos Orientales was a frontier, a vast tropical grassland plain east of the Andes. Populated mainly by indigenous people, it was considered "primitive" by much of the rest of Colombia. All of that changed when exploitable petroleum deposits were discovered, and the Llanos was transformed into the fastest growing region in the country. Rausch surveys sixty years of the area's history, from La Violencia—the civil war that rocked the country from 1948 to 1958—and the presidency of Rojas Pinilla, who helped pacify the Llanos in the late 1950s, to the National Front agreement between the Conservative and Liberal parties during the 1960s, its aftermath, and the rapid changes during the last half of the twentieth century. Using archival research and her own first-hand experiences, Jane Rausch examines the Colombian government's Llanos policies and the political, economic, and social changes they have brought about. This book brings to a strong conclusion Rausch's large-scale historical survey of a region: one sharing much in common with other South American frontiers and critical to Colombia's present and future.
Cuba
Author: Rex A. Hudson
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780844410456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
"Describes and analyzes the economic, national security, political, and social systems and institutions of Cuba."--Amazon.com viewed Jan. 4, 2021.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780844410456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
"Describes and analyzes the economic, national security, political, and social systems and institutions of Cuba."--Amazon.com viewed Jan. 4, 2021.
Country Studies: Colombia ...
Author: Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description