Colombia

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Thin and mostly historical. The coffee economy is the one part with a serious scholarly treatment.

7 books

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  1. Colombia: A Concise Contemporary HistoryMichael J. LaRosa, Germán R. Mejía, 2012
  2. The Making of Modern ColombiaDavid Bushnell, 1993
  3. Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970Marco Palacios, 1980

Books 7

The Making of Modern Colombia
T2 The Making of Modern Colombia
David Bushnell · 1993 · The standard one-volume history; the institutional backdrop to everything else.
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Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970
T3 Coffee in Colombia, 1850-1970
Marco Palacios · 1980 · Economic history of the crop, the growers' federation and the export institutions built around it.
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Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
T3 Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America
William Roseberry, Lowell Gudmundson, Mario Samper Kutschbach · 1995 · Comparative coffee political economy; sets Colombia's growers' federation in context.
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Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society
T3 Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society
Frank Safford, Marco Palacios · 2002 · Regional fragmentation as the structural fact behind Colombian markets.
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Colombia: A Concise Contemporary History
T3 Colombia: A Concise Contemporary History
Michael J. LaRosa, Germán R. Mejía · 2012 · Short modern survey covering the reform and security-driven recovery years.
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Essays on Industrialization in Colombia
T4 Essays on Industrialization in Colombia
R. Albert Berry · 1983 · Dated but the only serious English work on Colombian manufacturing.
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Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History o
T4 Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, 1875-2002
Marco Palacios · 2006 · Property rights, land and violence as a continuous economic story.
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