Colombia-Venezuela

"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.

Urban sociology monograph on the process of urbanization and characteristics of the low income urban population in Colombia - examines population growth, internal migration and rural migration, etc., includes information on the demographic aspects, family budget, land settlement patterns and housing facilities of the slum-dwellers and squatters, and comments on relevant political aspects and legislation. Bibliography pp. 97 to 102, graphs, illustrations and statistical tables.

El movimiento estudiantil "Todavía podemos salvar a Colombia"--Ritmo constituyente en el período preelectoral - La constituyente en el más cruento y angustioso período preelectoral - Del 27 de mayo al decreto 1926 de 1990.