Historia económica y social de Colombia

"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.

Reúne los estudios que desde hace 20 años consagra con regularidad el autor a la evolución de la política colombiana. Se trata de escritos dirigidos al público francés publicados desde 1969 en la revista ProblËmes díAmérique Latine. No pretende ofrecer grandes esquemas explicativos sino describir las peripecias políticas, el ascenso y la caída de numerosos movimientos sociales, los problemas no resueltos y los múltiples conflictos.

A young man named Rodolfo journeys with his family from Bogotá to Valledupar to see his dying father, and to face a reckoning with his past.