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Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, 1875–2002
Between Legitimacy and Violence is an authoritative, sweeping history of Colombia’s “long twentieth century,” from the tumultuous civil wars of the late nineteenth century to the drug wars of the late twentieth. Marco Palacios, a leading Latin American historian, skillfully blends political, economic, social, and cultural history. In an expansive chronological narrative fu...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
June 6th 2006
by Duke University Press Books
(first published 1995)
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A slow moving political history of Colombia with a smattering of its Social history. Sadly, being apolitical I did not enjoy this book much, in fact I stopped at page 172. However, from Panama seceding from Colombia due to the political inaction to Brazil’s ‘invisible hand’ propelling and establishing Colombia’s coffee industry, there was some great history at times. Overall, it was ‘A’ history of Colombia, not ‘THE’ history of Colombia.
An authoritative version of Colombian history filled with facts, dates and names. Not much of a narrative however. I bore through agrarian statistics from the early 1900 in the hopes that this might transition to today's issues, but if the transition was there I missed it. Trustworthy primer of modern Colombian history, although I would have never gotten through it if I had access to English language bookstores on my vacation.
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