... council records, house-to-house censuses, fundición and merchant registers, and a provincial genealogy yield the names of 805 Medellinenses who formed such a potential pool. To understand who was included in this data base and who was not requires explanation of the origin and use of some familiar...

... is not only paved, it stinks; an idyllic-looking river repels with its filthy contents; supposedly docile female textile workers rebel; and, much less surprising, those at the top benefit while those at the bottom do not. This exploration of the other side of turn-of-the-century Medellinense urban history...

.... (Medellín: Editorial Bedout, 1939), 1. 54 Alexander Payne alludes to the rather stuffy manners of elite Medellinenses as well as those aspiring to join them. Payne, “Crecimiento y cambio social en Medellín, 1900-1930,” Estudios Sociales (Medellín: FAES) 1:1 (Sept. 1986), 162. 55 Ospína...