La dirección política de la reforma económica en Colombia

"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....

"The buildings recognized as assets of cultural interest that have been selected to be part of this book make sense as structuring elements within the historical construction of the environment and the city of Bogotá. These buildings are not only part of the different urban fragments but who, in many cases, were promoters of the development of their areas, outstanding landmarks of the urban form, cultural or social references for citizens or outstanding examples for the architectural history of the city. " (HKB Translation taken from the introduction by Sheril Natalia Salazar Bayona)

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.

En este libro se trata de analizar de manera comparada el regimen politico colombiano, como democracia sui generis, sirviendose de las categorias asociadas a los regimenes de excepcion; igualmente, se trata de avanzar en un analisis sobre la combinacion singular de fenomenos que tiene lugar en el territorio nacional y que se presentan como una irrupcion poliforme de violencia.