Centenario de Panamá

Grandes crímenes : Teresita la descuartizada / Daniel Samper Pizano / - Liberales en armas : la guerrillas del Llano / Eduardo Franco Isaza / - Un pleito insólito : el negrito que compró en Colombia Josephine Baker / - José Guerra / - Así era : Barranquilla, años cincuenta / Alberto Duque López / - Un costeño en el Vaticano : su santidad va de vacaciones / Gabriel García Márquez / - A bordo de ciudad de Tunja : grito en el mar : "¡mujer a proa!" / Germán Pinzón / - Una expedición por el Chocó : en busca del pájaro mancuá / Rafael Arango Villegas / - La vida bandolera : una...

CONTENIDO: Políticas de control en los Estados Unidos: 1850-1980 - Orígenes de la prohibición de las drogas en Estados Unidos - Surgimiento del problema de la droga en las relaciones colombo-estadounidenses en los años 1980 - Virgilio Barco y la cooperación plena con Estados Unidos, 1986-1990 - César Gaviria y el arte político de conciliar.

"Polemical historical study of the origins of Panamanian secession and the role played by Colombian domestic actors and the US government. The evolution of Colombian-Panamanian relations since 1903, with particular reference to the issue of the Panama Canal is also analyzed. Denounces support of Panamanian separatism and its appropriation of the Canal Zone but also criticizes the behavior of Colombian parties and administrations for generating Panamanian resentment, opening doors to foreign intervention and failing to pay adequate attention to the inter-oceanic canal issue. Interesting...

"Important contribution to the social history of the New Kingdom and Cartagena de Indias, in particular. Spanish efforts first to comprehend and then control, if not eliminate, indigenous and African forms of alleged magic, whether religious or medical, illustrated imperial imperatives of domination and cultural transformation of subject peoples. First half of book establishes definitions and structures within which confrontation of Spanish and non-Western belief systems clashed. Second half provides a series of illustrative case studies. A glossary and documentary appendices augment the...