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Evil Hour in Colombia
Forrest Hylton
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Description for Evil Hour in Colombia
Paperback. Colombia is the least understood of Latin American countries. This book explores its history of 150 years of political conflict, characterized by radical-popular mobilization and reactionary repression. It shows how patterns of political conflict after 1848 explain the war destroying Colombian lives, property, communities and territory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 242.
Colombia is the least understood of Latin American countries. Its human tragedy, which features terrifying levels of kidnapping, homicide and extortion, is generally ignored or exploited. In this urgent new work Forrest Hylton, who has extensive first-hand experience of living and working in Colombia, explores its history of 150 years of political conflict, characterized by radical-popular mobilization and reactionary repression.
Evil Hour in Colombia shows how patterns of political conflict, from the mid-nineteenth century to today's guerilla narco-traffickers and paramilitaries, explain the wear currently destroying Colombian lives, property, communities and territory. In doing so, it traces how Colombia's "coffee ... Read more
Colombia is the least understood of Latin American countries. Its human tragedy, which features terrifying levels of kidnapping, homicide and extortion, is generally ignored or exploited. In this urgent new work Forrest Hylton, who has extensive first-hand experience of living and working in Colombia, explores its history of 150 years of political conflict, characterized by radical-popular mobilization and reactionary repression.
Evil Hour in Colombia shows how patterns of political conflict, from the mid-nineteenth century to today's guerilla narco-traffickers and paramilitaries, explain the wear currently destroying Colombian lives, property, communities and territory. In doing so, it traces how Colombia's "coffee ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Verso Books London
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844675517
SKU
V9781844675517
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About Forrest Hylton
Forrest Hylton is a researcher in history at New York University. He is an editor of and contributor to Ya es otro tiempo el presente: Cuatro momentos de insurgencia indígena, 2nd edition, and the co-author, with Sinclair Thomson, of Revolutionary Horizons: Popular Struggle in Bolivia.
Reviews for Evil Hour in Colombia
Colombia's war-without-end has been sustained by US intervention and subsidized by our own ignorance and indifference to the fate of this great country. Evil Hour in Colombia is a brilliant investigation of a complex and tragic history, as well as an eloquent indictment of Washington's policies.
Mike Davis A corrective to those servants of empire who would have us ... Read more
Mike Davis A corrective to those servants of empire who would have us ... Read more