Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment, 1905–1960
by
Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, Andrew Gordon, Daniel James
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2000
Before it became the center of Latin American drug trafficking, the Colombian city of Medellín was famous as a success story of industrialization, a place where protectionist tariffs had created a “capitalist paradise.” By the 1960s, the city’s textile industrialists were presenting themselves...