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Caribbean and Latin American

Jane M. Rausch. Colombia: Territorial Rule and the Llanos Frontier. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1999. Pp. xi, 285. $49.95.

Jane M. Rausch's most recent work combines two related studies in a single volume. The first half of the book surveys the administrative history of Colombia's national territories (four intendancies and six comisarías) during the Liberal Republic of 1930–1946. The second half examines one region within the territories—the llanos (plains) frontier—during the same time period, continuing the narrative begun in Rausch's two previous books, A Tropical Plains Frontier: The Llanos of Colombia, 1531–1831 (1984) and The Llanos Frontier in Colombian History, 1830–1930 (1993). 1

Rausch places the administration of the territories within the broader context of the troubled history of Colombian nationalism. Accepting David Bushnell's assertion that modern Colombia lacks "a true national identity or even a proper spirit of nationalism" (p. 3), Rausch contends that the Liberals—especially Presidents Enrique Olaya Herrera (1930–1934) and Alfonso López Pumarejo, during his first administration (1934–1938)—made valiant attempts to integrate the sparsely populated territories into the Colombian nation. Both men recognized the need to increase awareness of the territories among the roughly ninety-seven percent of Colombians who lived in the "core" regions of the central highlands and Caribbean coast. How could Colombia become a "modern" nation in material or ideological terms if the territories, representing over half the area of Colombia, remained completely unknown and inaccessible to the vast majority of Colombians? . . .

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