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title	:	Violence in Colombia : The Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective Latin American Silhouettes
author	:	Bergquist, Charles W.
publisher	:	Scholarly Resources, Inc.
isbn10 | asin	:	0842023690
print isbn13	:	9780842023696
ebook isbn13	:	9780585199504
language	:	English
subject	Violence--Colombia--History--20th century, Colombia--Politics and government--20th century.
publication date	:	1992
lcc	:	HN310.Z9V579 1992eb
ddc	:	303.6/09861
subject	:	Violence--Colombia--History--20th century, Colombia--Politics and government--20th century.

Page i Violence in Columbia The Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective

Page ii Map of Colombia, from Howard I. Blutstein. and Thomas E. Weil, Area Handbook of Colombia, 3d ed. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1977).

Page iii Violence in Columbia The Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective Edited by Charles Bergquist Ricardo Pearanda Gonzalo Snchez A Scholarly Resources Inc. Imprint Wilmington, Delaware

Page iv The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for permanence of paper for printed library materials, Z39.48, 1984. 1992 by Scholarly Resources Inc. All rights reserved First published 1992 Printed and bound in the United States of America Scholarly Resources In c.104 Greenhill Avenue Wilmington, DE 19805-1897 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Violence in Colombia: the contemporary crisis in historical perspective / edited by Charles Bergquist, Ricardo Pearanda, Gonzalo Snchez. p. cm. (Latin American silhouettes) Includes index. ISBN 0-8420-2369-0 (cloth). ISBN 0-8420-2376-3 (pbk.) 1. ViolenceColombiaHistory20th century. 2. Colombia Politics and government20th century. I. Bergquist, Charles W. II. Pearanda, Ricardo. III. Snchez G., Gonzalo. IV. Series. HN310.29V579 1992 303.6'09861dc20 91-22992 CIP

Page v CONTENTS Preface vii Chronology ix 1 Introduction: Colombian Violence in HistoricalPerspective Charles Bergquist 1 Part I Antecedents 2 Politics and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Colombia David Bushnell 11 3 Agrarian Antecedents of the Violence Catherine LeGrand 31 4 The Labor Movement (19301946) and the Origins of the Violence Charles Bergquist 51 Part II The Violence 5 The Violence: An Interpretative Synthesis Gonzalo Snchez 75 6 The "Business of the Violence": The Quindo in the 1950s and 1960s Carlos Miguel Ortiz Sarmiento 125 7 Violence and Economic Development: 19451950 and 19851988 Medfilo Medina 155

Page vi Part III The Contemporary Crisis 8 Revolutionary Guerrilla Groups in Colombia Eduardo Pizarro 169 9 Violence and Land Colonization Alfredo Molano 195 10 Guerrillas and Violence Daniel Pecaut 217 11 Public and Private Dimensions of Urban Violence in Cali Alvaro Camacho 241 12 Organized Violence Commission for the Study of the Violence 261 13 The Crisis of the Current Political Regime and Its Possible Outcomes Lus Alberto Restrepo 273 14 Conclusion: Surveying the Literature on the Violence Ricardo Pearanda 293 Glossary 315 Index 323

Page vii PREFACE This book had its origins in Bogot in 1985 at the first international symposium on the Violence in Colombia where some of its essays were presented in preliminary form. Funded by the Department of History of the National University and the Centro Gaitn in Bogot, the symposium brought together specialists from Colombia, North America, and Europe to explore the relationship between the phenomenon known as the Violence (19461966) and the violent contemporary crisis enveloping the country. Some of the essays were published later in Spanish in

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