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Although they have never made up more than 3% of Colombia's population, individual Germans and German companies have been present in every era of the nation's history. the object of this book is to provide an overview of German involvement in Colombia from the sixteenth century conquest to the ears after World War II in order to demonstrate that their contributions to the nation's development has bee far more significant than their scant numbe...

Although they have never made up more than 3% of Colombia's population, individual Germans and German companies have been present in every era of the nation's history. the object of this book is to provide an overview of German involvement in Colombia from the sixteenth century conquest to the ears after World War II in order to demonstrate that their contributions to the nation's development has bee far more significant than their scant numbe...

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-A biography of Santiago Perez Triana, a Columbian author, journalist, and diplomat---Provided by publisher.

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Santiago Pérez Triana was a Colombian author, journalist, and diplomat who became one of the leading proponents of pan-American unity and crusaders against European intervention in the western hemisphere. He led a dramatic globetrotting life and became one of Latin America's best-known public figures, but his work has been largely overlooked in recent years, until the arrival of this biography.

Until the 1980s, Colombia's Llanos Orientales was a frontier, a vast tropical grassland plain east of the Andes. Populated mainly by indigenous people, it was considered "primitive” by much of the rest of Colombia. All of that changed when exploitable petroleum deposits were discovered, and the Llanos was transformed into the fastest growing region in the country. Jane Rausch surveys sixty years of the area's history.

Examines efforts & failures of 4 presidential administrations to establish effective rule over Colombia's frontier territories between 1930-1946, the causes of the 1948-1964 "Violencia" Civil War & impact of guerrilla activity & drug cartels in the 1990s.

This book offers an overview of the foreign and domestic policies of the administrations of Jos￿ Vicente Concha (1914-1918) and Marco Fidel Suarez (1918-1923). It reveals that despite Colombia's neutrality, World War I had a significant impact on the economic and political development of the country during the first half of an era often referred to as the Conservative Republic.

In Where Cultures Meet, editors Weber and Rausch have collected twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using 'frontier' to mean more than 'border, ' Weber and Rausch regard frontiers as the geographic zones of interaction between distinct cultures. Each essay in the volume illuminates the recipro-cal influences of the 'pioneer' culture and the 'frontier' cul...

Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is located just 120 miles from Bogot, the mountains of the eastern Andean Cordillera lie between the two cities. As a result, after its founding in 1842, Villavicencio remained an isolated frontier outpost for more than one hundred years. From Frontier Town to Metropolis recounts the history of the town and explains how, by the twenty-first century, it became a thriving metropolis ...

Although Villavicencio, the capital of the Department of Meta, is located just 120 miles from BogotO, the mountains of the eastern Andean Cordillera lie between the two cities. As a result, after its founding in 1842, Villavicencio remained an isolated frontier outpost for more than one hundred years. From Frontier Town to Metropolis recounts the history of the town and explains how, by the twenty-first century, it became a thriving metropolis...

With a list of recommended books, videos, and films to enhance the written documents in each section, this work includes sections such as: Columbus and the Transit of Civilization, Was Inca Rule Tyrannical?, Patterns of Conquest, Spanish Struggle for Justice, The Introduction of African Slavery in Spanish America, and, Historical Interpretations.