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... information and insight about one of the lesser known parts of South America, the seasonally flooded plains of the lower Magdalena, Cauca, César, and San Jorge river valleys and the adjacent Sabanas de Bolívar. In Mompox y Loba , well-known sociologist Orlando Fals Borda returns to his “roots,” his...

...Aline Helg Alma en boca y huesos en costal: Una aproximación a los contrastes socio-económicos de la esclavitud, Santafé, Mariquita y Mompox, 1610–1660 . By Villa Carlos Eduardo Valencia . Bogotá : Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia , 2003 . Tables. Figures...

...Figure 1. Gold nodes in Antioquia and Caribbean New Granada within the Mompox foundry's orbit, 1740–1810. ...

.... Márquez was deeply connected to the government of Francisco de Paula Santander. The political rivalry between Santander and Nariño amplified the rage that Mompox elites felt when Márquez arrested Nariño y Ortega. Finally, the racial anxieties that undergirded the Márquez controversy were perhaps...

... [.] Yesterday the Cabinet Maker [Mr. Harley] whom I met in April at Mompox came here on his way to N. York. He has made money at Bogotá. Robert has found in his trunk the Comegen [?], a most destructive ant. It is common in all the hot lands of this Country—& will in a single night destroy a bale...

... to have coincided with a native uprising in Mompox, about 160 miles upriver. 43 Before Prins's men began their advance inland, they evidently wanted to obtain intelligence about the purported uprising. They dropped anchor far off the coast and sent ashore an indigenous man whose task was to spy...

... reorganization and the foundation of towns within the Cartagena-Mompox-Montcría triangle. Less impressive is the account of the movements of differentiation and land concentration that led to a tight structure of latifundismo in the nineteenth century. Using data from family archives, Fals Borda sketches...

... to hire fresh pack mules to carry the “100 bultos” of belongings the travelers took with them. Santisteban’s place-by-place account includes a section on travel along the Magdalena River from Honda to Mompox and back, undertaken in an abortive attempt (albeit, as he points out, an instructive one) to use...

... to the activities of rebel leaders in Mompox, Barranca del Rey, and Santa Marta, locations that will influence the success of the Morillo siege. Events in Venezuela occupy key roles in Segovia's analysis, especially when he compares the Venezuelan War to the Death with the more racially tolerant approach...

... contributions are his gold-production figures for New Granada, including Los Remedios, Cáceres, Zaragoza, Cartago, Guamacó, Mompós (Mompox?), Anserma, Cartagena, Antioquia, and Popayán. Combined with the data on the latter part of the seventeenth century compiled or forthcoming from historians at the University...

... uso de fuentes prima-rias de diferentes tipos, muchas de ellas sobre regiones provinciales periféricas (como el Socorro, Simití, y Mompox), lo que ofrece una visión de conjunto que va más allá de los centros de poder estudiados habitualmente. Los autores alegan que las ideas que avalaron la...

... to abstentionism sometimes did so in a participatory way. In 1888, a dissident group of Conservatives in Mompox decided to abstain from voting in protest against alleged electoral malpractices by local authorities. While polling went on in town, about three hundred partisans moved to the neighboring island...

... (London, 1979), pp. 178-204. 84 Orlando Fais Borda, Mompox y Loba: Historia doble de la costa , 2 vols. (Bogotá, 1980), I, 154b-155b. 85 Ibid., p. 156b. 86 Ibid., pp. 157b-158b. 87 Ibid., p. 155b. 88 Guillermo Abadía Morales, Compendio general del folklore colombiano...

... to the presidency since independence was achieved. For a sampling of costeño dissatisfaction, see La Palestra (Mompox, Bolívar), June 21, 1873, and El Escudo Nacional (Cartagena), May 18, 1875. See also Parra, Memorias , pp. 606-610. 18 El Progreso (Panamá), January 24, 1875. 19 Numerous...

... . Historia doble de la Costa . Vol. 1 , Mompox y Loba . 1979 . Reprint, Bogotá : Carlos Valencia Editores , 1980 . Finch Aisha K. Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841–1844 . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2015 . Flory...

..., “it was all a trick to get money from them, in order to pay for [redimir] his necessities.” 66 The same excuse was used by many healers when brought to the Inquisition for questioning, like with Pedro de Mesa Nanboa, an enslaved Congo man in Mompox reputed to be a “gran Mohan” (master of sorcerers). Mesa...