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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 past 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.

This book draws on participatory ethnographic research to understand how rural Colombian women work to dismantle the coloniality of power. It critically examines the ways in which colonial feminisms have homogenized the'category of woman,” ignoring the intersecting relationship of class, race, and gender, thereby excluding the voices of “subaltern women” and upholding existing power structures. Supplementing that analysis are testimonials from rural Colombian women who speak about their struggles for sovereignty and against territorial, sexual, and racialized violence enacted upon their land and their bodies. By documenting the stories of rural women and centering their voices, this book seeks to dismantle the coloniality of power and gender, and narrate and imagine decolonial feminist worlds. Scholars in gender studies, rural studies, and post-colonial studies will find this work of interest.

'El Catatumbo -etimológicamente, \'la casa de los truenos\'- es una subregión transfronteriza ubicada entre Colombia y Venezuela. Ha sido célebre de manera venturosa gracias a la inmortalización, realizada por las crónicas de los tiempos coloniales, de un fenómeno natural maravilloso de tormentas eléctricas denominado''el relámpago del Catatumbo''. Los barí lo definieron como''la concentración de millones de cocuyos''(luciérnagas). Fiel a la referencia heredada de este singular paisaje, la cual no solo se revela desde la majestuosidad de la naturaleza, sino que ha sabido, con generosidad, dejar su impronta en la mentalidad de sus pobladores a través de una larga historia de luchas populares, el paro que retumbó desde el Catatumbo entre el 11 de junio y el 4 de agosto del 2013 es, en un caleidoscopio de expresiones desde abajo en tiempos recientes en Colombia, una apuesta por constituir, persistir y resistir, en la que se izan las banderas de la vida digna, las voces nativas de los sujetos y las energías inagotables de las vías plebeyas.'

¿Sabe usted dónde están los restos de Neil Armstrong? ¿Hubo un san Napoleón? ¿Cuáles son los soldados «blandengues» y «mamelucos»? ¿Perón fue un activo espía en Chile, y hubo un san Poncio Pilato así como una santa Claudia Prócula? ¿Quién fue Perogrullo? ¿Y María Castaña? Este libro nos ofrece una atractiva, interesante y sorprendente relación de singularidades, datos curiosos, hechos muy poco conocidos y figuras históricas que revelan los conocimientos o la agudeza como investigador del autor.

Un valiente libro que expone alguna de las problemáticas del país. Por las sendas de El Ubérrimo, es un texto valiente, rigurosamente documentado, que renueva la información sobre algunos temas que han marcado la compleja historia de Colombia en las últimas décadas: paramilitarismo, desalojo violento de tierras y usurpación del poder para beneficios particulares.

For decades, Colombia has contended with a variety of highly publicized conflicts, including the rise of paramilitary groups in response to rebel insurgencies of the 1960s, the expansion of an illegal drug industry that has permeated politics and society since the 1970s, and a faltering economy in the 1990s. An unprecedented analysis of these struggles, Guns, Drugs, and Development in Colombia brings together leading scholars from a variety of fields, blending previously unseen quantitative data with historical analysis for an impressively comprehensive assessment. Culminating in an inspiring plan for peace, based on Four Cornerstones of Pacification, this landmark work is sure to spur new calls for change in this corner of Latin America and beyond.