La familia colombiana en el fin de siglo

"Excellent study by a team of Colombian social scientists of the recent evolution of Colombian-Venezuelan relations and their process of integration. Analyzes Colombian and Venezuelan roles in the other country's foreign policy, evolution of bilateral relations (1989-92), commercial relations, and negotiations and agreements on border, commercial, transportation, energy, environmental, and other issues. Concludes that integration process has lost momentum and recommends the reduction of the number and complexity of issues under discussion, while focusing attention on implementation of...

CONTENIDO: De la regeneración al republicanismo - Del republicanismo a la concentración nacional - ¿La violencia o las violencias? - Desorden, paz y guerra - Fraudes, bandoleros y matanzas - El principio del fin - Un demagogo místico? - Oposición sistemática? - Libertad de prensa y oposición - El oro y la escoria - Impunidad y violencia - El hombre tempestad - El monstruo.

"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...

These two stories, one poetic in the prosaic and the other prosaic poetic, represent the survival of love and the imposition of the death, including the bridge of life trying to happen in Colombia, where it is only possible to claim recognition in small private stories--Publisher.