Colombia
Subtitle: fragmented land, divided society
By: Frank Safford, Marco Palacios.
Contributors: Palacios, Marco.
Series: Latin American histories
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Political violence -- Colombia -- History -- 20th century; Colombia -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: Continuity and change in Colombia's economic geography: an overview; title: Pre-Columbian cultures; title: European conquest; title: Colonial economy and society, 1540-1780; title: Crises of authority, 1700-1808; title: Independence, 1808-1825; title: Bolívar's Colombia, 1819-1831; title: The formation of new Granada as a polity, 1831-1845: origins of the two traditional parties; title: Economy and society, 1821-1850; title: The liberal era, 1845-1876; title: Neither liberty nor order, 1875-1903; title: The republic of coffee, 1903-1946; title: A nation of cities; title: Political violence in the second half of the twentieth century.