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The Colombian Novel, 1844-1987
Novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude have awakened English-language readers to the existence of Colombian literature in recent years, but Colombia has a well-established literary tradition that far predates the Latin American "boom." In this pathfinding study, Raymond Leslie Williams provides an overview of seventeen major authors and more than one hundred works spanning the years 1844 to 1987. After an introductory discussion of Colombian regionalism and novelistic development, Williams considers the novels produced in Colombia's four semi-autonomous regions. The Interior Highland Region is represented by novels ranging from Eugenio Díaz' Manuela to Eduardo Caballero Calderón's El...
Los años del cambio
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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 ...
Academia Colombiana de Historia. 120 años
Como parte de la celebración de los 120 años de la Academia, se realiza esta publicación con el fin de recorrer su historia mostrando lo que se ha hecho y lo que no, lo que ha salido bien y lo que podría ser mejor, las limitaciones y los triunfos, así como las buenas y malas opiniones que ha suscitado esta labor en el ámbito del estudio y la cultura de Colombia.
Philanthropic Foundations in Latin America
Provides a directory of the rapidly expanding philanthropic foundations in Latin America, identifying over 750 foundations and presenting detailed information on 364 of them. In addition, the directory contains an introduction that analyzes historical data on Latin American foundations, a country-by-country summary of legal processes regarding foundations and pertinent tax laws, two essays by North and South American foundation presidents discussing the organization and management of private foundations, and an appendix with models of bylaws and financial statements of Latin American foundations.
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Memoria y olvido: usos públicos del pasado en Colombia, 1930-1960
En esta obra se analizan los usos públicos del pasado, los olvidos y los revisionismos promovidos en las conmemoraciones, la enseñanza de la historia patria y la conservación patrimonial, para consolidar e instalar las tradiciones patrióticas de la memoria nacional. Inicialmente se aborda la configuración de la Academia Colombiana de Historia –ACH–, como organismo emisor de la memoria oficial entre 1930 y 1960, en la articulación de cuatro mecanismos institucionales (un cuerpo de académicos dedicados a la historia como patriotismo y afición, la construcción de un proyecto editorial para la divulgación de la historia patria, la fundación de filiales y la legitimación de la ent...
