Colombia un viaje fotográfico

"Polemical historical study of the origins of Panamanian secession and the role played by Colombian domestic actors and the US government. The evolution of Colombian-Panamanian relations since 1903, with particular reference to the issue of the Panama Canal is also analyzed. Denounces support of Panamanian separatism and its appropriation of the Canal Zone but also criticizes the behavior of Colombian parties and administrations for generating Panamanian resentment, opening doors to foreign intervention and failing to pay adequate attention to the inter-oceanic canal issue. Interesting...

"Careful and detailed portrayal of the professorial community and scholarly culture in the New Kingdom. Rightly insisting that intellectual development in Nueva Granada is not limited to the era of Charles III, despite an analytical focus on the Enlightenment, Silva traces growth of the university corporation over the entire colonial period in terms of numbers, identity, and influence"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

El autor muestra en detalle como la cultura politica de los anos cuarenta hunde sus raices en un horizonte imaginario tradicional, compartido de igual modo por liberales y conservadores. Unos y otros recurren a conceptos modernos que van, sin embargo, inseparablemente unidos a motivaciones y sentimientos ancestrales. Democracia y pueblo, por ejemplo son invocados para estimular pasiones que arraigan en un pasado inmemorial. El autor toma distancia tambien de la lectura liberalizante de la historiografia dominante, de inspiracion liberal, que opone un partido conservador tradicionalista,...

A novelized account of the assassination of revolutionary leader Jacobo Prías Alape in 1960, considered a turning point in the years just preceding the emergence of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia.