The Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of ItselfColombia's status as the fourth largest nation in Latin America and third most populous—as well as its largest exporter of such disparate commodities as emeralds, books, processed cocaine, and cut flowers—makes this, the first history of Colombia written in English, a much-needed book. It tells the remarkable story of a country that has consistently defied modern Latin American stereotypes—a country where military dictators are virtually unknown, where the political left is congenitally weak, and where urbanization and industrialization have spawned no lasting populist movement. There is more to Colombia than the drug trafficking and violence that have recently gripped the world's attention. In the face of both cocaine wars and guerrilla conflict, the country has maintained steady economic growth as well as a relatively open and democratic government based on a two-party system. It has also produced an impressive body of art and literature. David Bushnell traces the process of state-building in Colombia from the struggle for independence, territorial consolidation, and reform in the nineteenth century to economic development and social and political democratization in the twentieth. He also sheds light on the modern history of Latin America as a whole. |
Contents
Indians and Spaniards | 1 |
Severing the Ties with Spain 17811819 | 25 |
The Gran Colombian Experiment 18191830 | 50 |
Independent New Granada A Nation State Not Yet a Nation 18301849 | 74 |
The NineteenthCentury Liberal Revolution 18491885 | 101 |
The Regeneration and Its Aftermath A PositivistConservative Reaction 18851904 | 140 |
The New Age of Peace and Coffee 19041930 | 155 |
The Liberal Republic 19301946 | 181 |
The National Front Achievements and Failures 19581978 | 223 |
The Latest Era Confounding the Predictions 1978 | 249 |
Epilogue | 283 |
Population | 286 |
Presidential Elections 18261990 | 288 |
Notes | 293 |
Bibliographical Essay | 305 |
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