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Historia de la Tristeza narra la vida de cinco mujeres que luchan por sobrevivir al desplazamiento y a la pérdida de identidad, después de dejar a sus espaldas lo que alguna vez fueron y amaron. Todas han vivido en carne propia diferentes tipos de agresión: política, social y doméstica. Lo conocido ha sido disgregado, los vínculos se han roto y, en ese caótico deambular en medio del dolor, los personajes indeleblemente buscan un nuevo hogar, la permanencia de nuevas raíces, un nuevo renacer. Son las víctimas de La Violencia que ha azotado a Colombia desde la década de los años...

"Ground-breaking, comprehensive multivolume history of the Huila dept. from pre-conquest to the present. Work is the product of the collaboration of diverse university faculty and regional specialists who utilized archival, published, and oral sources to write monographic essays on individual topics. Vol. 1 covers preconquest through the colonial era; vol. 2 covers independence through the 20th century; vol. 3 covers economic topics, social movements, colonization, government; vol. 4 covers education, daily life, women, health, diversions; vol. 5 covers literature, art, architecture....

"Fine political geography of central Nueva Granada (Santa Fe prov.) was originally prepared as a master's thesis. Demonstrates how changing property boundaries and land use both illustrated and activated shifts in social power relationships. For example, the dislocation of indigenous communities helped weaken the corregidores de naturales, which, in turn, facilitated the rise of other local administrators and jurisdictions and quickened the pace of miscegenation and citizenship expansion"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.