En estos doce ensayos escritos en las últimas dos décadas, Malcom Deas habla sobre historia militar y económica en Colombia historia política venezolana y fronteras y choques culturales en las Américas.Con gran sentido de los contextos y un uso perspicaz de las fuentes este texto ilumina personajes, hechos y fuerzas, que en su mayoría comprenden episodios de finales de la Colonia y de las posteriores jóvenes repúblicas.La prosa de Malcolm Deas se nutre de s...

This volume examines Colombia’s political economy at the outset of the twenty-first century. A group of leading experts explores various issues, such as drug trafficking, organized crime, economic performance, the internal armed conflict, and human rights. The experts highlight the various challenges that Colombia faces today. This volume is a major contribution to the field and provides a current panorama of the Colombia conflict.

Ernesto “Che” Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che’s Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, and then from Argentina through Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. Each essay is focused on a single country and writt...