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Debates de un taller organizado en Bogotá por el Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Nacional y la Fundación Friedrich Ebert de Colombia en Mayo 22 de 1996.

"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....

Esta investigación se enfoca particularmente en la participación de mujeres inmigrantes colombianas y resalta su agencia en sus opciones laborales y migratorias. Por otra parte analiza el trabajo sexual como una actividad económica. El libro intenta revelar las mediaciones que el mercado sexual presenta y que dan especificidad y peculiaridad al trabajo sexual.

"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.