Contentious Republicans

""Contentious Republicans" is the most intelligent and persuasive application of the insights of 'subaltern studies' I have encountered in the field of Latin American studies. James E. Sanders shows in engaging detail how different subaltern groups turned the republican politics of newly independent Colombia into an arena of struggle. The quality and sheer quantity of Sander's evidence is impressive; much of it is drawn from regional and national archives largely untapped for the purpose of writing social and cultural history."--Charles Bergquist, author of "Labor and the Course of American Democracy: U.S. History in Latin American Perspective"

James E. Sanders in an assistant professor of history at Utah State University.