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Author Karl, Robert A., 1981- author.

Title Forgotten peace : reform, violence, and the making of contemporary Colombia / Robert A. Karl.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 321 pages).
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Series Violence in Latin American history ; 3
Violence in Latin American history ; 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: peace and violence in Colombian history -- Messenger of a new Colombia -- Encounters with violence, 1957-1958 -- The making of the creole peace, 1958-1960 -- Peace and violence, 1959-1960 -- Reformist paths, 1960-1964 -- Books and bandits, 1962-1964 -- Confrontation, 1963-1966 -- Epilogue: the making of La violencia.
Summary "Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society's attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere's worst mid-century conflict and how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. In this book, Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, provincial elites, and urban intellectuals during a crucial conjuncture that saw reformist optimism transform into alienation. In addition to offering a sweeping reinterpretation of Colombian history--including the most detailed account of the origins of the FARC insurgency in any language--Karl provides a Colombian vantage on global processes of democratic transition, development, and memory formation in the 1950s and 1960s. Sweeping in scope, Forgotten Peace challenges contemporary theories of violence in Latin America."--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia.
Violence -- Colombia -- History -- 20th century.
Violence.
Colombia.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Peace-building -- Colombia -- History -- 20th century.
Peace-building.
Social problems -- Colombia -- 20th century.
Social problems.
Insurgency -- Colombia.
Insurgency.
Colombia -- History -- 1946-1974.
Chronological Term 1946-1974
1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Karl, Robert A., 1981- Forgotten peace. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520293922 (DLC) 2016046167
ISBN 9780520967243 (electronic book)
0520967240 (electronic book)
9780520293922 (hardcover alkaline paper)