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No. 3 (2011)
Revolutions in Latin America

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Eye of them: perceptions of History colombia 1920-1950, From the stories three women American

Published 2011-07-01

  • Jane Meyer Rausch

Jane Meyer Rausch
Universidad de Massachusetts

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to review books written by three North American women who traveled to Colombia between 1920 and 1950 in order to assess their potential value as a source of information for historians of the irst half of the twentieth century. The three authors and their books are: Blair Niles, Colombia: Land of Miracles (New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1939), Virginia Paxton, Penthouse in Bogotá (New York: Reynal &amp, Hitchcock, 1943), and Nancy Bell Bates, East of the Andes and West of Nowhere: A Naturalist’s Wife in Colombia) New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947). After examining the books, the essay concludes that although the authors did not always understand what they observed, they each recorded valuable data that might otherwise have been lost.

Keywords

Women, travel accounts, transportation, Bogotá, foreigners in Colombia.

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Author Biography

Jane Meyer Rausch

Profesora emérita del departamento de historia de la Universidad de Massachusetts. Especialista en Historia de Colombia y en estudios comparativos de las regiones fronterizas.

References

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  • “Blair Niles 71, Writer is Dead”, New York Times, 15 de abril, 1959, p. 33.
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