Histories of Solitude

ISBN-13: 9780367499341 / Twarda / 2024 / 480 str.

Opis

By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, this first volume out of 2 studies the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the world.

Spis treści

Preface: Colombia Revisited

Lina Britto and A. Ricardo López-Pedreros

 

Introduction: Histories of Solitude

Lina Britto and A. Ricardo López-Pedreros

 

Part 1: Imagining a Republic

1.       “We Are Free Citizens:” Reimagining Colombia’s Nineteenth-Century Political History

James Sanders

2.       Becoming the “Country of Regions”:  Race and Region in Nineteenth-Century Colombian Geography

Nancy Appelbaum

3.       Colombia’s Continental Contributions: Competing Hemispheric Divides in Nineteenth Century America.

Franz Hensel

 

Part 2: Building a Public Sphere

4.       New Granada's Lettered Public Sphere, the Legislature, and the Birth of a Republican Habitus

Víctor M. Uribe-Urán.  

5.       Debates on the Education and Citizenship of Indigenous People during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 

Francisco A. Ortega 

6.       Popular Consumers, Foreign Goods, and Political Recognition in mid-Nineteenth Century Colombia

Ana María Otero-Cleves

 

Part 3: Crafting Citizenship

7.       They fined the ‘Negro de la Pila’: Sound, Hygiene, and Social Control in Colombia during Early Twentieth-Century

Juan Fernando Velásquez

8.       Cultural Politics from Below: Crafting Citizenship in Colombia, 1930-1946. 

Catalina Muñoz-Rojas

9.       Darkening José Vasconcelos: Nation, Mestizaje, and The Cosmic Race in Black Terms, Colombia, 1930-1947 

Francisco Javier Flórez Bolívar, Ana Milena Rhenals Doria, and George Palacios

 

Part 4:  Inventing Development

10.   When Making Money Was a Social Service: Credit and Development in Colombia, 1925-1940

Susana Romero Sánchez

11.   “You’ll Only Be Good for Planting Potatoes!”: Agriculture and Education in Rural Colombia

 Timothy W. Lorek

12.  “Let’s Produce Wheat!”: Exclusion and the Tangled Knot of Colombian Agricultural Development and the Global Green Revolution

Rebecca Tally

13.   Carlos Lleras Restrepo, Cepalinos and the Colombian Technocracy’s Road to Pragmatism Andrés Álvarez, Margarita Fajardo, and Jimena Hurtado

 

Part 5: Subverting Orders

14.   The Sumapaz Region and la Violencia in Colombia (1946-1964): War, Peace, and Memory

Wilson Rigoberto Pabón Quintero

15.  A Tamed Revolution: The United States and Community Action in Colombia, 1958-1970

 Óscar Iván Calvo Isaza

16. Neither Revolutionary nor Co-opted: The Everyday Making of Popular Politics in Cartagena during the National Front

 Orlando Deavila Pertuz

17. Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples: Colombian Contributions to the History of Popular Tribunals

Luis Van Isschot

 

O autorze

Lina Britto is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is the author of Marijuana Boom. The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise.

 

A. Ricardo López-Pedreros is Professor of History at Western Washington University. He has been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at University College London. He is the author of Makers of Democracy. A Transnational History of the Middle Class in Colombia.