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 RevisitedLina Britto and A. Ricardo López-PedrerosIntroduction: Histories of SolitudeLina Britto and A. Ricardo López-PedrerosPart 1: Imagining a Republic1. “We Are Free Citizens”: Reimagining Colombia’s Nineteenth-Century Political HistoryJames E. Sanders2. Becoming the “Country of Regions”: Race and Region in Nineteenth-Century Colombian GeographyNancy P. Appelbaum3. Colombia’s Continental Contributions: Competing Hemispheric Divides in Nineteenth-Century AmericaFranz Hensel-RiverosPart 2: Building a Public Sphere4. New Granada's Lettered Public Sphere, the Legislature, and the Birth of a Republican HabitusVíctor M. Uribe-Urán 5. Debates on the Education and Citizenship of Indigenous People during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century in ColumbiaFrancisco A. Ortega 6. Popular Consumers, Foreign Goods, and Political Recognition in mid-Nineteenth-Century ColombiaAna María Otero-ClevesPart 3: Crafting Citizenship7. They Fined the "Negro de la Bocina": Sound, Hygiene, and Social Control in Colombia during the Early Twentieth CenturyJuan Fernando Velásquez8. Cultural Politics from Below: Crafting Citizenship in Colombia, 1930–1946 Catalina Muñoz-Rojas9. Darkening José Vasconcelos: Nation, Mestizaje, and The Cosmic Race in Black Terms, Colombia, 1930–1946Francisco Javier Flórez Bolívar, George Palacios, and Ana Milena Rhenals DoriaPart 4: Inventing Development10. When Making Money Was a Social Service: Credit and Development in Colombia, 1925–1944Susana Romero Sánchez11. “You’ll Only Be Good for Planting Potatoes!”: Agriculture and Education in Rural ColombiaTimothy W. Lorek12. “Let’s Produce Wheat!”: Exclusion and the Tangled Knot of Colombian Agricultural Development and the Global Green RevolutionRebecca Tally13. Carlos Lleras Restrepo, Cepalinos and the Colombian Technocracy’s Road to Pragmatism Andrés Álvarez, Margarita Fajardo, and Jimena HurtadoPart 5: Subverting Orders14. The Sumapaz Region and la Violencia in Colombia (1946–1964): War, Peace, and MemoryWilson Rigoberto Pabón Quintero15. A Tamed Revolution: The United States and Community Action in Colombia, 1958–1970Óscar Calvo Isaza16. Neither Revolutionary Nor Co-opted: The Everyday Making of Popular Politics in Cartagena, Columbia, during the National FrontOrlando Deavila Pertuz17. Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples: Colombian Contributions to the History of Popular TribunalsLuis Van Isschot