The Colombian Caribbean
Subtitle: a regional history, 1870-1950
By: Eduardo Posada-Carbó.
Series: Oxford historical monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Regionalism -- Colombia -- History.; Atlantic Coast Region (Colombia) -- History.; Atlantic Coast Region (Colombia) -- Economic conditions.; Atlantic Coast Region (Colombia) -- Social conditions.; Colombia -- History.
Description: This is a study of the role of regions in the development of modern nations in Latin America. Eduardo Posada-Carbo focuses on the Colombian Caribbean between 1870 and 1950.

He examines the achievements and shortcomings of arable agriculture and the significance of the livestock industry, the links between town and countryside, the influence of foreign migrants and foreign capital, the relationship between local and national politics, and the extent to which regionalism represented a challenge to the consolidation of the national state in Colombia. This original study opens up the area to scholarly scrutiny, and has wider implications for Latin American historiography.
Notes: Bibliography: p267-291. - Includes index.