Los hermanos Alexander y Wilhelm von Humboldt en Colombia

Las relaciones que se establecieron entre las comunidades indígenas de la Guajira (Colombia y Venezuela) con las sociedades y autoridades de las provincias de Riohacha y Maracaibo, en el período 1750-1850, respondieron a intereses que cada una tuvo en determinadas circunstancias. En Riohacha estuvieron mediadas por una larga trayectoria de contactos, negociaciones y enfrentamientos que se iniciaron desde mediados del siglo XVI; en la provincia de Maracaibo tal proceso no parece darse sino hasta bien entrada la segunda mitad del siglo XIX.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

El texto que el lector tiene entre sus manos se ocupa de la crisis que entre 1821 y 1832 arrasó con la primera república de Colombia. Su autora subraya el protagonismo político del poder local, es decir, el de las municipalidades y las juntas populares de autoridades y vecinos de las villas y las ciudades, cuyas soberanías no pudieron o no quisieron ser expropiadas por la república, lo que propició que se constituyeran en la herencia pesada que las revoluciones legaron al siglo XIX. La extraordinaria movilización política de un conjunto de actores —individuales, pero sobre todo...