Book contents
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- 1 Latin America and the international economy, 1870–1914
- 2 Latin America and the international economy, 1914–1929
- 3 Population
- 4 Rural Spanish America
- 5 The growth of cities
- 6 Industry
- 7 The urban working class and early labour movements
- 8 The Catholic church
- 9 Mexico: Restored republic and Porfiriato, 1867–1910
- 10 The Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920
- 11 Mexico: Revolution and reconstruction in the 1920s
- 12 Central America
- 13 Cuba
- 14 Puerto Rico
- 15 The Dominican Republic
- 16 Haiti
- 17 Argentina: Economy, 1870–1914
- 18 Argentina: Society and politics, 1880–1916
- 19 Argentina, 1914–1930
- 20 Uruguay
- 21 Paraguay
- 22 Chile
- 23 Bolivia
- 24 Peru
- 25 Colombia
- 26 Ecuador
- 27 Venezuela
- 28 Brazil: Economy
- 29 Brazil: Society and politics, 1870–1889
- 30 Brazil: Society and politics, 1889–1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
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from VI - LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- I THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MIDDLE AND SOUTH AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE CONQUEST
- II COLONIAL SPANISH AMERICA
- III COLONIAL BRAZIL
- IV THE INDEPENDENCE OF LATIN AMERICA
- V LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1820 TO c. 1870
- VI LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, c. 1870 to 1930
- 1 Latin America and the international economy, 1870–1914
- 2 Latin America and the international economy, 1914–1929
- 3 Population
- 4 Rural Spanish America
- 5 The growth of cities
- 6 Industry
- 7 The urban working class and early labour movements
- 8 The Catholic church
- 9 Mexico: Restored republic and Porfiriato, 1867–1910
- 10 The Mexican Revolution, 1910–1920
- 11 Mexico: Revolution and reconstruction in the 1920s
- 12 Central America
- 13 Cuba
- 14 Puerto Rico
- 15 The Dominican Republic
- 16 Haiti
- 17 Argentina: Economy, 1870–1914
- 18 Argentina: Society and politics, 1880–1916
- 19 Argentina, 1914–1930
- 20 Uruguay
- 21 Paraguay
- 22 Chile
- 23 Bolivia
- 24 Peru
- 25 Colombia
- 26 Ecuador
- 27 Venezuela
- 28 Brazil: Economy
- 29 Brazil: Society and politics, 1870–1889
- 30 Brazil: Society and politics, 1889–1930
- VII LATIN AMERICA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY, POLITICS, 1930 to c. 1990
- VIII IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- IX LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- X THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA SINCE INDEPENDENCE
- THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
Summary
Two recent compilations offer an entry to Colombian history in these fifty years. A. Tirado Mejía, director, assisted by J. O. Melo and J. A. Bejarano, Nueva historia de Colombia, 6 vols. (Bogotá, 1989) and J. Jaramillo Uribe, J. G. Cobo Borda and S. Mutis Durán (eds.), Manual de historia de Colombia, 3 vols. (Bogotá, 1978–9).
For descriptions of the country in the 1880s, see M. Cané, En viaje, 1881–1882 (Paris, 1884); E. Rothlisberger, El Dorado (Bogotá, 1963); A. Hettner, Viajes por los Andes colombianos, 1882–1884 (Bogotá, 1976); R. Gutiérrez, Monografías, 2 vols. (Bogotá, 1920–21). A later work of exceptional value is P. J. Eder, Colombia (London, 1913), and the diary of the Bolivian novelist, historian and diplomat Alcides Argüedas, La danza de las sombras, new ed. (Bogotá, 1983) describes politics and society at the end of the 1920s.
The occasional writings of Rafael Núñez are collected in La reforma política en Colombia, 7 vols. (Bogotá, 1946–50). The writings of Miguel Antonio Caro exist in various compilations apart from the Obras completas, 8 vols. (Bogotá, 1918–45). A new edition is in the course of publication by the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, and this is complemented by publications of his correspondence, much of it erudite but some of it political, and by volumes of constitutional studies and speeches. Of the correspondence, see especially E. Lemaitre (introd.), Epistolario de Rafael Núñez con Miguel Antonio Caro (Bogotá, 1977), especially valuable because Núñez’s instructions that on his death his archive should be thrown into the sea were carried out.
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- The Cambridge History of Latin America , pp. 470 - 474Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995