Los embera y los cuna

"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)

Las fronteras marítimas y la duplicación de nuestro territorio - La política exterior de Colombia después de la dependencia - La mosquitia Colombiana - Panamá - Costa Rica - Nicaragua - Jamaica - Honduras - República Dominicana - Haití - Venezuela - Ecuador.

"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...

"El libro ... es el resultado del concurso Historias de Vida que el Fondo Editorial para la Paz, de la Fundación Progresar, convoca anualmente en su interés por rescatar la memoria histórica de las últimas cuatro décadas ... los textos son ante todo una aproximación a la cotidianidad de la izquierda armada y a la vez a unos elementos culturales que se han forjado en varias décadas de guerra insurgente en nuestro país"--P. [7]-8.