Download or read book Contentious Republicans written by James E. Sanders and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVShows how Afro-Colombians, Indians, and “white” peasants helped construct a democratic political culture in 19th-century Colombia, and ways in which the loss of some aspects of this mass-based democracy fed into the pervasive violence of the/div