Author: Luis H. Fajardo
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Category : Antioquia (Colombia : Dept.)
Languages : es
Pages : 156

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Author: Patricia Londoño-Vega
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191554669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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This is the first detailed scholarly study of culture and sociability in Colombia during the period c. 1850 and 1930. Patricia Londoño-Vega gives a vivid picture of some of the factors that reduced social distances in the province of Antioquia during this period of relative harmony and prosperity. She examines hundreds of the groups and voluntary associations which flourished at this time and which brought a growing number of Antioqueños of different social backgrounds together around religious practices and societies, the exercising of charity, a concern for education, and the pursuit of cultural progress. The book describes the crucial role played by religion and the Catholic Church, which underwent considerable growth after the turbulent period of mid-nineteenth century liberal reforms until the end of the conservative era in 1930, and traces the progress of parishes, devotional associations, religious communities, private and public religiosity, and numeros pilanthropic societies, all of which brought about the bonds between the classes. The author examines achievements in education and the emergence of a thriving gamut of literary groups, public libraries, social clubs, and other assciations created to promote public instuction, pedagogy, manners, temperance, 'cultivated' music, and moral improvement. These cultural associations strove towards the longed-for civilisation, as percieved in its prevalent Western connotations. The social intermingling brought about by all these forms of sociability did not of course abolish class distinctions, but did generate a complex and closely integrated society, with an optimistic and constructive view of itself. The description of social and cultural dynamism, set against the background of growing religiiosity, challenges the seldom-discussed assumption that religion slowed down social and cultural modernisation. Primary evidence, drawn from extensive researh in proceedings and reports by groups, associations, periodical publications, statistics, diaries and memoirs, travellers' accounts, books of etiquette, genre literature and other contemporary publications, as well as visual images, particulary photographs, document important topics which have in the past attracted little attention from scholars.

Author: Luis H. Fajardo
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Category : Antioquia (Colombia : Department)
Languages : es
Pages : 160

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Author: Carlos Dávila
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781386242
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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A new edition of a book first published in Bogotá, this English edition is a crucial addition to the literature on Latin American business history for a wider English-speaking audience, and it will be of interest to business and economic historians generally. Essays are included by leading economic historians of Latin America from the UK and from other countries. Each contributor has managed to relate the business history of a selected country to the main trends in its economic development.

Author: R. J. Brew
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Category : Antioquia (Colombia : Department)
Languages : en
Pages : 836

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Author: University of Miami. Cuban and Caribbean Library
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 830

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Author: Nancy P. Appelbaum
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Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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