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Volume III looks at the period of history in Latin America from independence to c.1870.
By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas. The volumes bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada working in various disciplines to discuss how a country that has been consistently presented as a rarity in Latin America provides critical examples to re-examine major historical problems: republicanism and liberalism; export economies and agrarian modernization; populism and cultural politics of state fo...
Colombia, la grande reúne las perspectivas de destacados historiadores e historiadoras en una obra colectiva que ofrece una mirada innovadora y crítica sobre la primera República de Colombia (1819-1830). A través de rigurosos ensayos historiográficos y novedosos estudios con base en fuentes de archivo, el equipo autoral explora las complejidades de este periodo crucial en la historia latinoamericana. El prólogo, a cargo de Marco Palacios, subraya la relevancia y actualidad política e historiográfica de los temas abordados. Esta obra desafía las narrativas convencionales sobre el Congreso de la Villa del Rosario de Cúcuta de 1821, analizando críticamente cómo se ha interpretado es...
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Between 1793 and 1853 Columbia underwent a transition from being the Spanish viceroyalty New Granada to the Gran Columbia of liberator president Simón Bolívar, and on to become one of the most liberal republics in the contemporary world. The Constitutional Documents of Colombia and Panama 1793–1853 presents the first declaration of human rights in Spanish from the year 1793, along with the first constitutional charter of Ibero-America (that of the Free State of Socorro from 1810), as well as the previously little-known early constitutions of the Antioquia Republic from 1811. The volume contains 32 national documents and 21 state document of Colombia and two documents of Panama.
Freedom's Captives offers a compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific.