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 año insignificante; Orden policial y desorden social en la Bogotá de fin de siglo. By Max S. Hering Torres. Bogotá: 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 López-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 Pérez Morales. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 248. $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826521927.
The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics. By Ana María Reyes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 328. $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478003977.