Evil Hour in Colombia

Informationen zum Autor Forrest Hylton is a researcher in history at New York University. He is an editor of and contributor to Ya es otro tiempo el presente: Cuatro momentos de insurgencia indígena , 2nd edition, and the co-author, with Sinclair Thomson, of Revolutionary Horizons: Popular Struggle in Bolivia . Klappentext The most up-to-date book on Colombia: from the mid-19th century to today's guerrilla narco-traffickers and paramilitaries. Zusammenfassung Colombia is the least understood of Latin American countries. This book explores its history of 150 years of political conflict! characterized by radical-popular mobilization and reactionary repression. It shows how patterns of political conflict after 1848 explain the war destroying Colombian lives! property! communities and territory.

Product details

• Authors: Forrest Hylton, Hylton Forrest
• Assisted by: Gonzalo Sánchez (Foreword)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2006
• EAN: 9781844675517
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-551-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Colombia, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas