La cultura política de la democracia en Colombia, 2004

Estudiante de ingeniería - Escuela militar - Estados Unidos - De vuelta ala ejército - Cursos y escuelas - Aeronáutica - La violencia - La casa liberal - Ministro de correos y telégrafos - Laureano vs. Rojas - El segundo libertador - Prohibido criticar al Jefe Supremo - Relatos de un náufrago - Un congreso de bolsillo - La cruzada por las armas - También el ejército - El nuevo júbilo.

"Important contribution to the social history of the New Kingdom and Cartagena de Indias, in particular. Spanish efforts first to comprehend and then control, if not eliminate, indigenous and African forms of alleged magic, whether religious or medical, illustrated imperial imperatives of domination and cultural transformation of subject peoples. First half of book establishes definitions and structures within which confrontation of Spanish and non-Western belief systems clashed. Second half provides a series of illustrative case studies. A glossary and documentary appendices augment the...

"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.

CONTENIDO: Reencuentro en El Mercado de Lorica - En Riohacha - En Valledupar - En Santa Marta - En Barranquilla - En Cartagena - En Sincelejo - En Montería.