1st Edition
Histories of Solitude Colombia, 1820s-1970s
By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas.
The volumes bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada working in various disciplines to discuss how a country that has been consistently presented as a rarity in Latin America provides critical examples to re-examine major historical problems: republicanism and liberalism; export economies and agrarian modernization; populism and cultural politics of state formation; revolutionary and counterinsurgent Cold War violence; neoliberal reforms and urban development; popular mobilization and counterhegemonic public spheres; political ecologies and environmental struggles; and labors of memory and the challenge of reconciliation. Contributors are sensitive to questions of subjectivity and discourse, observant of ethnographic details and micro-politics, and attuned to macro-perspectives such as transnational and global histories.
These volumes offer fresh perspectives on Colombia and will be of great value to those interested in Latin American and Caribbean history.
Preface: Colombia Revisited
Lina Britto and A. Ricardo López-Pedreros
Introduction: Histories of Solitude
Lina Britto and A. Ricardo López-Pedreros
Part 1: Imagining a Republic
1. “We Are Free Citizens”: Reimagining Colombia’s Nineteenth-Century Political History
James E. Sanders
2. Becoming the “Country of Regions”: Race and Region in Nineteenth-Century Colombian Geography
Nancy P. Appelbaum
3. Colombia’s Continental Contributions: Competing Hemispheric Divides in Nineteenth-Century America
Franz Hensel-Riveros
Part 2: Building a Public Sphere
4. New Granada's Lettered Public Sphere, the Legislature, and the Birth of a Republican Habitus
Víctor M. Uribe-Urán
5. Debates on the Education and Citizenship of Indigenous People during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century in Columbia
Francisco A. Ortega
6. Popular Consumers, Foreign Goods, and Political Recognition in mid-Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Ana María Otero-Cleves
Part 3: Crafting Citizenship
7. They Fined the "Negro de la Bocina": Sound, Hygiene, and Social Control in Colombia during the Early Twentieth Century
Juan Fernando Velásquez
8. Cultural Politics from Below: Crafting Citizenship in Colombia, 1930–1946
Catalina Muñoz-Rojas
9. Darkening José Vasconcelos: Nation, Mestizaje, and The Cosmic Race in Black Terms, Colombia, 1930–1946
Francisco Javier Flórez Bolívar, George Palacios, and Ana Milena Rhenals Doria
Part 4: Inventing Development
10. When Making Money Was a Social Service: Credit and Development in Colombia, 1925–1944
Susana Romero Sánchez
11. “You’ll Only Be Good for Planting Potatoes!”: Agriculture and Education in Rural Colombia
Timothy W. Lorek
12. “Let’s Produce Wheat!”: Exclusion and the Tangled Knot of Colombian Agricultural Development and the Global Green Revolution
Rebecca Tally
13. Carlos Lleras Restrepo, Cepalinos and the Colombian Technocracy’s Road to Pragmatism
Andrés Álvarez, Margarita Fajardo, and Jimena Hurtado
Part 5: Subverting Orders
14. The Sumapaz Region and la Violencia in Colombia (1946–1964): War, Peace, and Memory
Wilson Rigoberto Pabón Quintero
15. A Tamed Revolution: The United States and Community Action in Colombia, 1958–1970
Óscar Calvo Isaza
16. Neither Revolutionary Nor Co-opted: The Everyday Making of Popular Politics in Cartagena, Columbia, during the National Front
Orlando Deavila Pertuz
17. Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples: Colombian Contributions to the History of Popular Tribunals
Luis Van Isschot
Biography
Lina Britto is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is the author of Marijuana Boom. The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise.
A. Ricardo López-Pedreros is a Professor of History at Western Washington University. He has been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at University College London. He is the author of Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia.
