Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 186 p)
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ISBN:
1299818951
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9781299818958
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9780813048444
Content:
Until the 1980s, Colombia's Llanos Orientales was a frontier, a vast tropical grassland plain east of the Andes. Populated mainly by indigenous people, it was considered ""primitive"" by much of the rest of Colombia. All of that changed when exploitable petroleum deposits were discovered, and the Llanos was transformed into the fastest growing region in the country. Rausch surveys sixty years of the area's history, from La Violencia--the civil war that rocked the country from 1948 to 1958--and the presidency of Rojas Pinilla, who helped pacify the Llanos in the late 1950s, to the National F
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-178) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1299817637
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813044668
Additional Edition:
Print version Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales
Language:
English
