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Until Death Do Us Partby Ingrid Betancourt
HarperCollins US 2002; US$ 9.99Ingrid Betancourt, a senator and a presidential candidate in Colombia, grew up among diplomats, literati, and artists who congregated at her parents' elegant home in Paris, France. Her father served as Colombia's ambassador to UNESCO and her mother, a political activist, continued her work on behalf of the country's countless children whose lives were being destroyed by extreme poverty and institutional neglect. Intellectually, Ingrid was influenced by Pablo Neruda and other Latin American writers like Gabriel Garcí¡ Má²±uez, who frequented her parents' social circle. She studied at É£ole de Sciences Politiques de Paris, a prestigious academy in France. more...
Walking Ghostsby Steven Dudley
Routledge 2004; US$ 38.50In Walking Ghosts , the author expertly crafts story after story of politicians, drug kingpins, revolutionaries and killers to map out the complicated and murderous absurdity that is everyday life in Colombia. more...
Modernization in Colombiaby James D. Henderson
UPF 2001; US$ 59.95''The research involved in putting this manuscript together is truly awesome and involves a major synthesis of Colombian political, economic, urban, and social history which has not been achieved to date either in Spanish or in English.''-- Maurice P. more...
Virginiaby Katherine M. Doherty
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 35.00To understand how the United States came together as a nation, students must first acquaint themselves with the original 13 colonies - and how each of these colonies followed its own path to the ratification of the Constitution. Each book in this set highlights the people, places, and events that were important to the development of each colony. more...
Colombiaby Charles F. Gritzner
Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 30.00The only country in South America to border both the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, Colombia is the continent's fourth-largest country and has the second-largest population behind Brazil. This book takes the student on a journey through this geographically and ethnically varied nation. It also features photographs and maps. more...
Between Resistance and Adaptationby Caroline A. Williams
Liverpool University Press 2004; US$ 70.00A study of the interactions between Indians and Spaniards in the Chocó throughout much of the colonial period, revealing the complexity of inter-ethnic relations in frontier regions. The author considers the changing relationships not only between Spaniards and Indians but also between factions of both groups, showing how Spaniards and Indians sometimes allied with each other against other ethnically mixed groups with different agendas. No similar study covers this topic. more...
Out of Captivityby Marc Gonsalves; Tom Howes; Keith Stansell; Gary Brozek
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American civilian contractors—Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Tom Howes—crash-landed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they emerged from the plane bloodied and injured as gunfire rained down around them. As of that moment they were prisoners of the FARC, a Colombian terrorist and Marxist rebel organization. In an instant they had become American captives in Colombia's volatile and ongoing conflict, which has lasted for almost fifty years. In Out of Captivity , Gonsalves, Stansell, and Howes recount for the first time their amazing tale of survival, friendship, and, ultimately, rescue, tracing their five and a half years as hostages of the FARC. Their... more...
Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835by Aline Helg
The University of North Carolina Press 2004; US$ 65.00After Brazil and the United States, Colombia has the third-largest population of African-descended peoples in the Western hemisphere. Yet the country is commonly viewed as a nation of Andeans, whites, and mestizos. Aline Helg examines the historical roots of Colombia's treatment and neglect of its Afro-Caribbean identity. more...
The English Empire in America, 1602-1658by L.H. Roper
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2009; US$ 99.00This study situates the colonization of Virginia in the social and political landscape of the early seventeenth century. Roper explores how the early development of the colony was viewed from both sides of the Atlantic, using the documentary record of key figures in the Virginia Company, as well as the colonisers themselves. more...
Chronicles of a Failure Foretoldby Harvey Kline
The University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 23.96Charts the progress and failure of Colombian President Andrés Pastrana’s efforts to bring an end to sixty years of civil war. The civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for almost sixty years with shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties and with bursts of appalling violence punctuated by uneasy truces, cease-fires, and attempts at reconciliation. Varieties of Marxism, the economics of narco-trafficking, peasant land hunger, poverty, and oppression mix together in a toxic stew that has claimed uncounted lives of (most often) peasants, conscript soldiers, and people who just got in the way. Hope for resolution of this conflict is usually confined to dreamers and millenialists of various... more...









