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Perspectives for the Historical Study of Rural Politics and the Colombian Case: An Overview

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Catherine C. LeGrand
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In the study of agrarian politics in general and the history of rural Colombia in particular, four broad, interrelated perspectives are relevant to the understanding of rural politics: peasants and rebellion, the interaction of local and national politics, patron-client relations, and regionalism. Principal issues and trends within each of these areas are explored here, and an effort is made to generate specific questions for historical investigation. The present state of research on rural history and politics in Colombia is also surveyed, and observations are advanced on how new research orientations originating in these perspectives may contribute to our understanding of social and political developments in Colombia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Latin American Research Review , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , 1977 , pp. 7 - 36
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Copyright © 1977 by the University of Texas Press

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