Histories of Solitude

<p>By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—<em>Histories of Solitude</em> and <em>Histories of Perplexity</em>—study the histories of Colombia over the last two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas.</p><p>The volumes bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada working in various disciplines to discuss how a country that has been consistently presented as a rarity in Latin America provides critical examples to re-examine major historical problems: republicanism and liberalism; export economies and agrarian modernization; populism and cultural politics of state formation; revolutionary and counterinsurgent Cold War violence; neoliberal reforms and urban development; popular mobilization and counterhegemonic public spheres; political ecologies and environmental struggles; and labors of memory and the challenge of reconciliation. Contributors are sensitive to questions of subjectivity and discourse, observant of ethnographic details and micro-politics, and attuned to macro-perspectives such as transnational and global histories.</p><p>These volumes offer fresh perspectives on Colombia and will be of great value to those interested in Latin American and Caribbean history.</p>