Histories of Solitude by López-Pedreros, A. Ricardo; Britto, Lina;

Short description:

By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, this first volume out of 2 studies the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the world.

Long description:

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.

Table of Contents:

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