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Recommendations of books about the history of Colombia?

I did a search but couldn't find it. Forgive me if someone already asked this question. Can any of you Colombia experts recommend a good book or books in English about the history of Colombia? Thanks in advance.

By saint on Mar 30, 2004, 08:02 in Friendly Talkzone. AddThis Social Bookmark Button


seattlejames says on Mar 30, 2004, 08:36:

Saint.....Thanks I just got off the phone with....latiendadelasrosas.com......My Spanish kinda.......Sucks.......They were very helpful in English...

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seattlejames says on Mar 30, 2004, 08:44:

One More Thing Before anyone yells at me because my Spanish sucks, I am taking lessons, I have been to Mexico many many times, and I have been to Ecuador twice, Guayaquil and Quito....

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Desideria (Moderator) says on Mar 30, 2004, 09:18:

German Arciniegas The best-known Colombian historian is Germán Arciniegas. I don't know if any of his books have been translated into English, though.

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4. The Making of Modern Colombia : A Nation in Spite of Itself
by David Bushnell, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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5. Music, Race, and Nation : Musica Tropical in Colombia (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
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8. Colombia Before Independence : Economy, Society, and Politics Under Bourbon Rule (Cambridge Latin American Studies, No 75)
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9. Courting Turmoil and Deferring Prosperity : Colombia Between 1960 and 1990 (World Bank Comparative MacRoeconomic Studies)
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17. Dulcinea in the Factory : Myths, Morals, Men and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment, 1905-1960 (Comparative and International Working-Class his
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19. Colombia and the United States, 1765-1934
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20. Honorable Lives : Lawyers, Families, and Politics in Columbia, 1780-1850 (Pitt Latin American Series)
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21. The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia
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31. Columbia : Territorial Rule and the Llanos Frontier
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38. The Early Colombian Labor Movement : Artisans and Politics in Bogota, 1832-1919
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by Joanne Rappaport (Preface)

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44. Democracy in Colombia : Clientelist Politics and Guerrilla Warfare
by Jorge P. Osterling

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45. Blackness and Race Mixture : The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)
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46. Advances in Abandoned Settlement Analysis : Application to Prehistoric Anthrosols in Colombia, South America
by Robert C. Eidt

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by Eduardo Posada Carbo, Eduardo Posada-Carbo

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54. Neogene-Quaternary Geology of the High Plain of Bogota, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia (Stratigraphy, Paleoenvironments and Landscape Evolution)
by Karin F. Helmens

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55. Bibliografia Juridica : Latin American Legal Bibliography, 1810-1965 : Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba
by Alberts Villalon-Galdames

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by Thomas Millington

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61. Historical Dictionary of Colombia
by Robert H. Davis

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"When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"(First Witch in Macbeth)

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SiV says on Mar 30, 2004, 14:29:

Books If you read Spanish, there´s a great series of encyclopedias on Colombia by Planeta, and if you live in Colombia, they´re really cheap, too. There divided up into periods, political, social, conflict history, loads of photos, personal accounts, easy to read and good detail. Shit, i should get commission for this . .
If you´re looking for something in English, the English historian and colombianista, Malcolm Deas has written some interesting stuff.
SiV

Stultórum númere infinitum est.

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saint says on Mar 30, 2004, 14:41:

Wow! Thanks so much! Hey everyone. Thanks so much for taking the time to post these books. I'll be busy for months reading up. I appreciate it.

I'm sure Amazon.com appreciates the advice too. I just ordered 9 books listed above. Thanks again everyone!

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vladimiro says on Mar 30, 2004, 19:17:

Books The fist book about the political genocide of the UP has just come out and I can't wait to read it. Its called Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerilla Politcs in Colombia.

The MAKING OF A MODERN NATION (mentioned above), was the only general history of Colombia available in English when I bought it a couple years ago. It covers the Spanish conquest up to the mid 1990s. It also offers a different perspective than many of the books at Amazon because its written by a conservative acedemic instead of a journalist or human rights activist.

I am currently devouring "Don Mario Julio" from the Colombian publisher INTERMEDIO. Its the biography Julio Mario Santo Domingo, who is the most powerful man in Colombia and has been in the news lately because of the sale of AVIANCA, one of the many companies he owns.

From the back cover:

Cuando un ciudadano de a pie se detiene en una esquina de cualquier capital de Colombia, seguramente encontrara alguna manefistacion actual o remeniscente del imperio Santo Domingo: una valla de cerveza AGUILA; un restaurante PRESTO; el diario El ESPECTADOR colgado de un puesto ambulante donde se venden jugos TUTTI-FRUTI y AGUA BRISA; peatones hablando con celulares CELUMOVIL; la voz paisa de Dario Arizmendi, el director de CAROCAL RADIO, o el paso de un avion AVIANCA. Y lo mas probable tambien es que tanto el alcalde de esa ciudad como el equipo futbal, el senador y el representante a la Camara de departamento han sido patrocinados por Don Julio Mario Santo Domingo, un hombre quien ni el ciudadano ni los politicos han visto pero que esta ahi, en sus vida cotidianas y en otros paisajes mas imperceptibles de la economia, influyendo en sus decisiones diarias, en al agua que toman, en las noticias que los asombran, en el presidente que los gobierna, en el carro que manejan y en las bebidas con qu se emborrachan, todo esto, en en pais donde se consume mas cerveza que leche pasteurizada.

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Tinto (Moderator) says on Apr 5, 2004, 19:21:

A long list of non-fiction books Follow the link and scroll down for a list of 64 books from 1931-2004



http://www.bertruiz.com/1079215523/index_html

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Shovelbum says on Apr 6, 2004, 08:15:

English book on the history of Cartagena?? Hi All,

On my last trip through Cartagena, I purchased a small, soft-covered book called, "A Brief History of Cartagena" by Eduardo Lemaitre. While it was a great introduction of the subject matter, I would love to find a book with more in-depth coverage of the history of this fascinating city.

I understand that "A Brief History.." was taken from a much larger Spanish volume of the history of Cartagena (I don't believe the larger volume was ever translated into English).

So...does anyone know of any English-language book with a comprehensive coverage of the history of Cartagena?? Thanks in advance!

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vanwely says on Apr 6, 2004, 11:57:

Bert Ruiz opinion Tinto et al

I was wondering what your opinion was on Bert Ruiz. I was thinking of buying his book on the Colombian Civil War but it is about $60. A lot of his stuff seems to be left leaning but he did work on Wall Street. I have read #30 above - Colombia Fragmented Land, Divided Society. It is pretty good but weak on recent history.


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