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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Londono, Luis

Titel

Gifts, Horses and Flowers: Cultural History of the State in Eduardo Santos Presidential Tour, Colombia, 1938

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

• ProQuest

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• After being elected president in 1938, Eduardo Santos set out on a tour around Colombia. This thesis analyzes this cross-country tour to argue that politicians in municipalities still represented the predominant actors in the Colombian political scene. In doing so, I try to find a middle ground between two opposing trends in the historiography. On the one hand, historians in Colombia and Latin America have labelled the 1930s a decade of transition, pointing out the process of state formation, urbanization, the rise of populism, and mass politics. Eduardo Santos' tour exemplifies how Colombian historiography of the 1930s overestimates socio-political and demographic change. On the other hand, I believe that scholars who criticize Bogotá's dominant role in politics, should not go in the opposite direction by stressing local isolation without acknowledging the importance of their connection to the capital.