Forgotten Peace - Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-29392-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 344 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: Violence in Latin American History

Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society’s attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere’s worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, provincial elites, and urban intellectuals during a crucial conjuncture that saw reformist optimism transform into alienation. In addition to offering a sweeping reinterpretation of Colombian history—including the most detailed account of the origins of the FARC insurgency in any language—Karl provides a Colombian vantage on global processes of democratic transition, development, and memory formation in the 1950s and 1960s. Broad in scope, Forgotten Peace challenges contemporary theories of violence in Latin America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karl, Robert A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Peace and Violence in Colombian History
1. Messenger of a New Colombia
2. Encounters with Violence, 1957–1958
3. The Making of the Creole Peace, 1958–1960
4. Peace and Violence, 1959–1960
5. Reformist Paths, 1960–1964
6. Books and Bandits, 1962–1964
7. Confrontation, 1963–1966
Epilogue: The Making of “La Violencia”

A Note on Citations, Institutional Abbreviations, and Archives
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert A. Karl is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University.