El jefe supremo

"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....

"La concepción tradicional de seguridad nacional, surgida y consolidada durante la Guerra Fría, debe ser sustituida o al menos seriamente redefinida. Así lo exigen los cambios ocurridos en el panorama mundial desde la caída del muro de Berlín." -- Tomado de la contracarátula.

The author details her early years in Paris, where she was raised amidst diplomats, literary masters, and artists, and her return to her native Colombia, where, as a senator, she went up against the powerful drug cartels.

CONTENIDO: La encuesta folclórica nacional de 1942: perspectivas de historia política y cultural - Sociedades campesinas y transición social en Colombia hacia 1940: una lectura no folclórica de la encuesta folclórica nacional de 1942.