Histories of Solitude

Lina Britto is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is the author of Marijuana Boom. The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise. A. Ricardo López-Pedreros is a Professor of History at Western Washington University. He has been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at University College London. He is the author of Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia.

Preface: Colombia Revisited

Lina Britto and A. Ricardo López-Pedreros

Introduction: Histories of Solitude

Lina Britto and A. Ricardo López-Pedreros

Part 1: Imagining a Republic

1. “We Are Free Citizens”: Reimagining Colombia’s Nineteenth-Century Political History

James E. Sanders

2. Becoming the “Country of Regions”: Race and Region in Nineteenth-Century Colombian Geography

Nancy P. Appelbaum

3. Colombia’s Continental Contributions: Competing Hemispheric Divides in Nineteenth-Century America

Franz Hensel-Riveros

Part 2: Building a Public Sphere

4. New Granada's Lettered Public Sphere, the Legislature, and the Birth of a Republican Habitus

Víctor M. Uribe-Urán

5. Debates on the Education and Citizenship of Indigenous People during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century in Columbia

Francisco A. Ortega

6. Popular Consumers, Foreign Goods, and Political Recognition in mid-Nineteenth-Century Colombia

Ana María Otero-Cleves

Part 3: Crafting Citizenship

7. They Fined the "Negro de la Bocina": Sound, Hygiene, and Social Control in Colombia during the Early Twentieth Century

Juan Fernando Velásquez

8. Cultural Politics from Below: Crafting Citizenship in Colombia, 1930–1946

Catalina Muñoz-Rojas

9. Darkening José Vasconcelos: Nation, Mestizaje, and The Cosmic Race in Black Terms, Colombia, 1930–1946

Francisco Javier Flórez Bolívar, George Palacios, and Ana Milena Rhenals Doria

Part 4: Inventing Development

10. When Making Money Was a Social Service: Credit and Development in Colombia, 1925–1944

Susana Romero Sánchez

11. “You’ll Only Be Good for Planting Potatoes!”: Agriculture and Education in Rural Colombia

Timothy W. Lorek

12. “Let’s Produce Wheat!”: Exclusion and the Tangled Knot of Colombian Agricultural Development and the Global Green Revolution

Rebecca Tally

13. Carlos Lleras Restrepo, Cepalinos and the Colombian Technocracy’s Road to Pragmatism

Andrés Álvarez, Margarita Fajardo, and Jimena Hurtado

Part 5: Subverting Orders

14. The Sumapaz Region and la Violencia in Colombia (1946–1964): War, Peace, and Memory

Wilson Rigoberto Pabón Quintero

15. A Tamed Revolution: The United States and Community Action in Colombia, 1958–1970

Óscar Calvo Isaza

16. Neither Revolutionary Nor Co-opted: The Everyday Making of Popular Politics in Cartagena, Columbia, during the National Front

Orlando Deavila Pertuz

17. Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples: Colombian Contributions to the History of Popular Tribunals

Luis Van Isschot