Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946-1953

by Mary Roldán

Between 1946 and 1966a surge of violence in Colombia left 200,000 dead in one of the worst conflicts the western hemisphere has ever experienced. the first seven years of this little-studied period of terror, known as la Violencia, is the subject of Blood and Fire. Scholars have traditionally assumed that partisan politics drove La Violencia, but Mary Rold n challenges earlier assessments by providing a nuanced account of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822329182
• ISBN13: 9780822329183
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"