- 158 pages
- English
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Region, Race, and Class in the Making of Colombia
About this book
This pioneering translation of Alfonso Múnera's seminal work El fracaso de la nación presents a new interpretation and innovative perspective on canonical Colombian history and the failure of the Colombian nation to English-speaking readers.
Mainstream historiography depicts Colombian independence as the achievement of European-descendent elites only, downplaying the role and importance of regional subaltern classes. Múnera's well-researched account challenges theoretical, political, and cultural interventions and shows that these subaltern groups were pivotal to achieving independence from Spain. It was their organizing and pressing for freedom from colonial domination that ultimately brought about independence in Cartagena and later to the whole country. Yet Múnera demonstrates that these differing regional elites meant that a single, coherent unity across New Granada was not possible, a point that would ultimately doom subsequent nation-building efforts.
Offering a truly decolonizing perspective, one that has remained hidden from official accounts of Colombian independence, scholars and researchers in political science, history, sociology, and anthropology will welcome the opportunity to read this work for the first time in translation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Series preface: Alfonso Múnera. El Fracaso de la Nación
- Preface to the English language edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 New Granada and the problem of central authority
- 2 The Colombian Caribbean: Authority and social control in a frontier region
- 3 Cartagena de Indias: Progress and crisis in a former trading post of enslaved people
- 4 Economic implications of the conflict between Cartagena and Santa Fe de Bogotá
- 5 Cartagena’s struggle for political autonomy
- 6 Black and mulatto artisans and the independence of the Republic of Cartagena, 1810–1816
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index