Colombia al día, síntesis de la realidad nacional

"Palacios' long-awaited and indispensable synthesis of Colombian history. Lacks footnotes, but includes extensive, up-to-date bibliography. Concludes that it is urgent and not impossible for Colombia to develop a political system capable of resolving modern conflicts without relying on myths or manipulation"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

La época de la colonia - Organización política y administrativa de la Nueva Granada - La Real audiencia de la Nueva Granada - El preludio de la Independencia.

Lo divino y lo humano : El calendario festivo / Marcos González Pérez / - El Sagrado corazón ¿una cuestión política o de religiosidad popular? / Cecilia Henríquez / - Rito religioso y rito secular en una fiesta ecuatoriana / Ernesto Salazar / - La obediencia, fuente de poder. Masones y Jesuítas, siglo XIX / Amparo Ibáñez / - Bordes, pliegues, simbolos e imposiciones : Cultura y contracultura en América Latina / José Daniel García Sánchez / - Imaginarios urbanos en América Latina / Armando Silva / - Las ciudades de la noche roja. La cultura de la violencia a través de la salsa...

"Interesting collection of essays on the national security challenges faced by Colombia and Latin America in the 1990s. The authors agree given the conditions created by the end of the Cold War - the rise of globalization and interdependence and the consolidation of democracy in Latin America - the old notions of national security focused on anticommunism, US leadership, the central role of the military and the regional hypotheses of conflict should be replaced by a new doctrine aimed at strengthening democracy, promoting South American cooperation, restructuring military-civilian relations,...