The making of modern Colombia :: a nation in spite of itself /

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 tel...

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1. Verfasser: Bushnell, David, 1923-2010
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : Univ. of California Press, ©1993.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 334 pages, [14] pages of plates)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-321) and index.
ISBN:9780520913905
0520913906
0585176418
9780585176413
9780520082892
0520082893

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