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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

El gran historiador inglés, Eric Hobsbawm, en su texto Rebeldes primitivos (1983, p. 264), califica la Violencia en Colombia como “la mayor movilización armada de campesinos (ya sea como guerrilleros, bandoleros o grupos de autodefensa) en la historia reciente del hemisferio occidental, con la posible excepción de determinados períodos de la Revolución mexicana”. A partir de esta consideración, usando la categoría de bandolero social y explotando cientos de documentos del Archivo Germán Guzmán, el libro analiza el bandolerismo en Colombia durante la llamada Violencia tardía,...

Las percepciones y los discursos sobre la indianidad marcan un recorrido tan complejo como la evolución de la historia occidental y sus relaciones con América durante cinco siglos. Esos imaginarios -como toda representación colectiva- se han conformado cual amalgamas del ’sentido común’ propio de cada gran periodo histórico de la expansión de los europeos. Estos discursos se han nutrido de las prácticas del sometimiento de los indios, que luego fueron nombrados como indígenas, aborígenes, hasta llegar a los escenarios actuales en que los poderes y las sociedades no-indígenas...