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From Frontier Town to Metropolis
Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is located just 120 miles from Bogot , the mountains of the eastern Andean Cordillera lies between the two cities. As a result, after its founding in 1842, Villavicencio remained an isolated frontier outpost for more than one hundred years--even though "El Portal de la Llanura" ("the Gateway to the Plains") provided the principal access to Colombia's tropical plains (Llanos), a vast grassy region cut by tributaries connecting with the Meta and Guaviare rivers and eventually the Orinoco. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century governments in Bogot regarded the Llanos as the "Eastern Lands of Promise," underestimating the geographic and ...
Salt and the Colombian State
In republican Colombia, salt became an important source of revenue not just to individuals, but to the state, which levied taxes on it and in some cases controlled and profited from its production. The salt trade consistently accounted for roughly 10 percent of government income. In the town of La Salina de Chita, in Boyaca province, thermal springs offered vast amounts of salt, and its procurement and distribution was placed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance. Focusing his study on La Salina, Joshua M. Rosenthal presents a fascinating glimpse into the workings of the early Colombian state, its institutions, and their interactions with local citizens during this formative peri...
Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales
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.
Injury Prevention and Control
At least 5 million people die each year from injuries, and about half the deaths in the 10-24 age group are accountable to them. This is a major health problem for which a number of strategies for prevention and control can be developed. This book presents a series of the plenary and state-of-the-art presentations from the 5th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control. There is a focus on transportation, workplace, sport and leisure, and domestic sectors, and an exploration of the legal, medical, environmental, safety and governmental issues which play a part in the subject. Practitioners and researchers in a variety of activities, including epidemiology and public health, occupational health and safety, ergonomics and product design, medicine, criminology, engineering and physical sciences, and the behavioural sciences, should find this a useful and challenging work.
Mercenaries and Law
Mercenary activities have been an historically constant phenomenon - a phenomenon which descends from ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire. Some people refer to mercenaries as 'hired killers, ' while others say that they are the 'dogs of war' or heartless 'soldiers of fortune.' This book offers an insight on the issue of mercenaries and includes the relevant international legal instruments that have been drafted on the topic
The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians, and generated extensive research, since the tract first appeared in the early twentieth century. Despite having repeatedly been discredited as a historical document, and in spite of the fact that it served as an inspiration for Hitler’s antisemitism and the Holocaust, it continues, even in our time, to be influential. Exploring the Protocols’ successful dissemination and impact around the world, this volume attempts to understand their continuing popularity, one hundred years after their first appearance, in so many diverse societies and cultures. With contributions from leading scholars in th...
El proceso político de las derechas en Colombia y los imaginarios sobre las guerras internacionales 1930–1945
Este libro trata de comprender cómo construyó Colombia el discurso del odio, categoría introducida por la historia de las emociones y los sentimientos, la cual nos podría ayudar a comprender las contradicciones que se materializaron posteriormente en el periodo de La Violencia, buceando tras la sociogénesis del discurso del conflicto interpartidista durante la "República Liberal". Este libro se estructura en cinco partes. La primera comienza con algunas tesis sobre la revolución mundial de los años veinte, la cual fue ante todo una revolución de la cultura política, marcada por los movimientos sociales urbanos de masas y las revoluciones tecnológicas de las comunicaciones, especia...
Guns, Drugs, and Development in Colombia
For decades, Colombia has contended with a variety of highly publicized conflicts, including the rise of paramilitary groups in response to rebel insurgencies of the 1960s, the expansion of an illegal drug industry that has permeated politics and society since the 1970s, and a faltering economy in the 1990s. An unprecedented analysis of these struggles, Guns, Drugs, and Development in Colombia brings together leading scholars from a variety of fields, blending previously unseen quantitative data with historical analysis for an impressively comprehensive assessment. Culminating in an inspiring plan for peace, based on Four Cornerstones of Pacification, this landmark work is sure to spur new calls for change in this corner of Latin America and beyond.
Guerrilla y terrorismo en Colombia y España
Surgimiento del Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN - El reino de los símbolos, valores, ritos y creencias - "La chispa que enciende la pradera"--EL regreso de la brigada proliberación "José Antonio Galán" - La lucha por la tierra y su influencia en el conflicto social - Las causas políticas o el problema del estado y su reflejo en el sistema político - El Frente Nacional o la expresión de "la camisa de fuerza del bipartidismo" - "Cambia tu voto por un fusil" : oposición política al Frente Nacional y la decisión de irse al monte" - Contexto regional : Frente Nacional y Magdalena Medio santandereano - Una vieja pero renovada forma de hacer política : Colombia enferma de "plomonía" - La relación del ELN con la memoria histórica de la población - La dimensión local : la historia también está hecha por personas.
Narcosubmarines
This book is about the encounters of Colombian drug smugglers and the Colombian Navy, both in the open seas and along coastlines. Javier Guerrero C. specifically examines the technologies involved in the War on Drugs, such as the narcosubmarines and patrol boats, the knowledge required to transport drugs and the knowledge required to stop the illicit flows. The author presents compelling new evidence for advancing an understanding of technological innovation in antagonist contexts, as well as the symbiotic and co-evolutionary character of the process of technological innovation in the War on Drugs. This book will appeal both to practitioners and scholars interested in the War on Drugs and the production of technologies in outlaw contexts.
