...Frank Safford * The author is Professor of History at Northwestern University. Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 In April 1977, Luis Ospina Vásquez, Colombia’s most distinguished economic historian, died at the age of seventy-two. The son of one Colombian president...

...J. León Helguera El General Ospina ( biografía ) . By Camacho Jorge Sánchez . Bogotá , 1960 . Editorial A B C. Academia Colombiana de Historia . Biblioteca “Eduardo Santos” . Vol. XXV . Illustrations. Index . Pp. xvi , 230 . Paper. Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press...

... for civil engineers at the Universidad de Antioquia. The latter was the immediate predecessor of the Escuela de Minas; when the Escuela opened, on April 11, 1887, it simply inherited the program’s facilities, faculty, and students. 8 Founded by the brothers Pedro Nel and Tulio Ospina...

... to blame the country’s political instability, as well as its economic backwardness, on an excessive number of lawyers. After the liberal rebellion of 1839-41, Mariano Ospina, Minister of the Interior during the presidency of General Pedro Alcántara Herrán (1841-45), argued that young lawyers, unable...

... this year’s program of the Gran Colombian Studies Committee, “Colombia’s Durable Oligarchs: The Ospinas, 1530-1990.” Those presenting papers were Eduardo Sáenz-Rovner (Universidad de los Andes), Frank Safford (Northwestern University), J. León Helguera (Vanderbilt University), and Maurice Brungardt (Loyola...

... to national power, best symbolized by the elections of presidents Restrepo, Marco Fidel Suárez (1918-21), and Pedro Nel Ospina (1922-26). 39 After the opening of the Panama Canal, the traditional orientation of the export economy toward the Caribbean ports was diverted to the Pacific. This new integration...

... in. For example, it is not true that the governor of Tolima supported a Liberal revolt against the government of Ospina Pérez in 1947 (p. 162), nor is it true that Ospina created a special political police to deal with violence that same year (p. 167). More damaging is the author’s sandwiching of his study...

...Deborah Pacini Hernández ¡SALSA! Havana Heat, Bronx Beat . By Ospina Hernando Calvo . Translated by Caistor Nick . New York : Monthly Review Press , 1995 . Photographs. Notes. Glossary. Index. 151 pp. Paper . $16.00 . Copyright 1996 by Duke University Press 1996...

...Christine Ehrick Struggles for Recognition: Melodrama and Visibility in Latin American Silent Film . By Juan Sebastián Ospina León . Oakland : University of California Press , 2021 . Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xiv, 250 pp. Paper, $34.95 . Copyright ©...

... indicates that the fact that Antioqueños had positions within the state (including Mariano Ospina Pérez, president from 1946 to 1950) “created an atmosphere of confidence toward industrial investment.” This interpretation sounds like a Colombian version of the “history of consensus.” We would have...

..., and also more committed to liberal economic doctrine, Secretary of the Interior Mariano Ospina Rodríguez nonetheless agreed with Acevedo on the need to provide special protection for the Indians, even though this contradicted economic principles. The latter would have to give way before the demonstrated...

...Clarence H. Haring Copyright 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 El Autócrata; Ensayo Político-Social . By Ospina Carlos Wyld . ( Guatemala : Tipografía Sánchez & De Guise , 1929 . Pp. 272 ). ...

...Theo H. Crook La economía del petróleo en Colombia . By Ospina-Racines Eduardo . ( Bogotá : Editorial Antena, S. A. , 1944 . Pp. 107 . Paper.) Copyright 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 ...

...Stephan Borhegyi Ciudad vieja . By Valenzuela Pedro Pérez . Guatemala , 1960 . Imprenta Universitaria . Colección de autores guatemalenses “Carlos Wyld Ospina,” vol. 6 . Pp. 198 . Paper . Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 ...

...David Bushnell The Protestant Denominations in Colombia. A Historical Sketch with a Particular Study of the So Called “Religious Persecution.” By Ospina Eduardo S. J. Bogotá , 1954 . Imprenta Nacional . Pp. 212 . Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 ...

...James J. Parsons Industria y protección en Colombia, 1810-1930 . By Vásquez Luís Ospina . Medellín , 1955 . Editorial Santa Fe . Maps. Bibliography. Indexes . Pp. xix , 531 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...

...Charles Wagley Empire’s Children: The People of Tzintzuntzan . By Foster George M. , assisted by Ospina Gabriel . [ Smithsonian Institution, Institute of Social Anthropology, Publication No. 6 .] ( Washington, D. C. : 1949 . Pp. 297 . 2 maps, 16 plates. Paper .) Copyright...

...Walter A. Payne La enseñanza de la historia en Guatemala. (Desde 1832 hasta 1852) . By Guevara Héctor Humberto Samayoa . Guatemala , 1959 . Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala . Colección de Autores Guatemalenses “Carlos Wyld Ospina,” no. 5 . Illustration. Appendices...

...Ann Twinam * The author, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati, thanks Professors Richard M. Morse and Frank Safford, and the late Luis Ospina Vásquez, for their comments and acknowledges the research support of the Foreign Area Fellowship Program and the Brodie...

... particularly of Antonio García, Gabriel Giraldo Jaramillo, and the aforementioned Dr. Socarrás. Other Colombians who influenced my work and ideas have included Luis Ospina Vásquez and Luis Eduardo Nieto Arteta. And, of course, I cannot fail to mention other Latin Americans, especially Gilberto Freyre...