Abstract
This essay reviews the following works: An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World. By Ernesto Bassi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp ix + 360. $26.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822362401. Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise. By Lina Britto. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. 352. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780520325470. Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia. By Lina del Castillo. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. Pp. 402. $30.00 paper back. ISBN: 9781496205483. Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia. By Alexander L. Fattal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 304. $27.50 paperback. ISBN 9780226590646. 1892: Un ano insignificante; Orden policial y desorden social en la Bogota de fin de siglo. By Max S. Hering Torres. Bogota: Critica y Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2018. Pp. 245. COP$50.000 hardcover. ISBN: 9789584266606. Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia. By A. Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 360. $28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478002857. Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas. By Amy C. Offner. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 400. $39.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780691190938. No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions. By Edgardo Perez Morales. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 248. $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826521927. The Politics of Taste: Beatriz Gonzalez and Cold War Aesthetics. By Ana Maria Reyes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 328. $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478003977.
Highlights
Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise
While historians increasingly uncover and highlight the ways Colombia was a part of a Caribbean-Atlantic nexus, they explain how political and intellectual elites intentionally offered an alternative vision of Colombia as an Andean-Atlantic nation
Hemispheric encounters addressed in some of the books under review reveal the centrality of Colombia within wider debates about republicanism in the age of revolution, modern economic development schemes, social classes and popular cultural aesthetics, international drug smuggling and control systems, and state responses to radical political projects
Summary
Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise. By Lina Britto. The nine books under review in this essay span the length of Colombia’s existence, from a late Spanish colonial possession, to a vast postcolonial state called Gran Colombia in the aftermath of the age of revolutions, to a republic amid unresolved political, social, and economic inequalities.
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