To mark the 199 anniversary of the formal Declaration of Independence of Venezuela, and in full bicentennial year of the beginning of the meeting, the April 19, 1810, we take the atmosphere of celebration dates to present to you a contribution to the dissemination of historical knowledge Venezuela.
here and now continue the selection began last July and continued the previous month .
4. Twentieth century. [FIRST PART]
For the long and vast Siglo XX (in our opinion the most important century of our history) and occupies an extensive bibliography, worthy of the magnitude of the events and personalities that he marched, it is necessary thematic subdivisions make it better facilitators compression of the titles we will exhibit. Therefore, this note will get longer and also be the first of our chronological staging will split.
General Books:
These are the texts, now in the XXI century, or XX-ending task decided to try to interpret and analyze the importance of the facts, events and figures that have transited over the century 1900-2000. Obviously not the only domestically, but they are the ones who decide to choose because they have the right balance between depth and amenity, are directed to a general non-specialist and shopping are easily accessible.
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twentieth century: visions and testimonies. Edited by Polar Foundation, consists of 3 volumes. Originally published in 2000, is now exhausted from his publishing house but can be readily available in bookshops outside commercial channels ( here can be found some in Caracas) and is a fundamental work to try to understand the century past because it does not focus solely on the narration and description of events and traditional events, but by contrast, met a large group of specialists to explain as their subject area, highlights from the national life, not focusing exclusively on the political, if not giving importance to aspects such as economics (particularly to this area and that all work is coordinated by Asdrubal Baptista) as well as arts , film, dance, food, science, television and even the role of the woman or the relationship with the intelligentsia and the power, among others. It also has a great new feature: the "The twentieth century talked," where throughout the three volumes was selected to four large Venezuelan historians - namely, Manuel Caballero, Elías Pino Iturrieta, Germain Racing Ladies and Ramón J. Velásquez-to parse through their point of view, and even personal experiences developments of the twentieth century. It is an indispensable work for understanding important historical period and national absolutely recommend it. 
Venezuelan History in the Twentieth Century. Manuel Caballero De . Published 2010 by Editorial Alfa is therefore the most recent text on the century that we discussed in this literature. Manuel Caballero being a brilliant essayist who has written often enough about that century, this book is a wonderful synthesis of much of the work of authorship, finally compiled in one volume in a pleasant, harmonious and intelligent and can say definitively establishes Knight as a specialist in twentieth century history . This will be very well synchronized aspects of works such as "Gomez, the liberal tyrant", "The crisis of the twentieth century Venezuela," Neither God nor federation "," Betancourt, political nationalism, "" The Passion of understanding " "Dramatis Personae", "The gestation of Hugo Chávez: lights and shadows of the 40 years of democracy in Venezuela" among others, that the author himself acknowledges in his introduction as a sort of "deja vu" to serve the purpose of presenting systematic way its great general reflection on the century throughout his academic career in order to direct it to a general audience, trying to keep a balance between simplicity and rigor of historical writing. Thus, from Cipriano Castro and Andean ("Venezuela gets off the horse") until the arrival of Hugo Chavez ("The Agony of politics") are an overview of the century very useful and enlightening, which emphasizes the analysis and critical interpretation, not without controversy-a focus on the typical narrative and description. In fact, the theme of the book, its central idea is the thesis that this was the century of the Policy of Peace and Democracy, as a civilized way of conceiving the struggle for power, abandoning the permanent use of the traditional violence: civil wars would open new horizons, and finally completely unknown positive Venezuelan history. Unfortunately the work has a heavy price for it is a text of almost 400 pages (that is a pretty big book, and therefore expensive to produce bibliographic levels Venezuela) but we can say TOTALLY worth the cost to be paid this true and useful jewel of Venezuelan historiography. Without a doubt I believe it is already an essential work for understanding the recent past and all history of the twentieth century, which thus explains everything when we live now century. It is available in most libraries in the country, especially those belonging to large chains. 
restorative From Revolution to the Bolivarian Revolution. Published in 2009, a joint publication by the newspaper El Universal on the occasion of its centenary, the UCAB, this text is a collective work coordinated by Asdrubal Aguiar, flat collecting more analytical than descriptive vision of our twentieth century , which was bounded at its ends by two processes chronological curiously called themselves the "revolutions": that led to power autocracies Andean of Castro and Gomez in 1899 and which brought to power the tumultuous process that led Chávez in 1999. The work has three major areas: I. History, which clearly reflects the chronological development of the country, written by attorney Asdrubal Aguiar. II. The dominant axis, number of issues to understand and better understand the century, addressed by several authors and III. The characters, biographical and social analysis of the 3 most important figures of the twentieth century and its influence, namely Castro, Gómez Betancourt and written by Ramon J. Velasquez, Manuel Caballero and Carrera Damas respectively. It is a very good text, aimed to facilitate understanding of this through the review of the past and has a clear and understandable language, perhaps journalism, which facilitates reading. The only thing we can say as unfavorable is its price, which we think is high for a text of its kind. As a recent book data is achieved in most libraries in the country, especially those belonging to large chains. Also at the bookstore UCAB and headquarters in El Universal. 
The twentieth century in Venezuela. History minimal. Published again for Fund PDVSA oil workers (before Lagoven) is a collective text, also coordinated again by Elías Pino Iturrieta and is the seventh-and so far last, the excellent editorial created the series "Stories minimal." Presumably treated as a summary of the hundred years that make up our recent past, offering a pleasant short and concise enough to give the reader unfamiliar with the academic specialty a clear enough picture of the great periods gave the century . For this work were chosen as the authors of each chapter to specialists who had already published research, testing and presentations on topics that they would try, producing the not so easy to sum operation central works of short texts written, accessible, and in turn collect the essentials of their studies and research. Thus the period analyzed Inés Quintero Castro and Diego Bautista Urbaneja does the same Gomecism. Simon Alberto Consalvi post explains the transitional period and Pino gomecista Iturrieta adeco triennium. The decade of military dictatorship - perezjimenizmo corresponds to Manuel Rodriguez Campos and forty years of civil representative democracy is written by Manuel Caballero. The book ends with a brief account of the 1998-2000 biennium at the hands of Inés Quintero and Elias Pino Iturrieta. In our view, the balance of this synthesis was very successful and helpful, and with an optimum level without sacrificing academic quality or making concessions to the superficiality to win the general public, it will make a pleasant work and needed to know and understand the twentieth century. It is available in any release of large retail chains in the country. 
Venezuela Balance of the twentieth century. Published by Grijalbo is a work that belongs to the Foundation Francisco Herrera Luque ( renowned psychiatrist Venezuelan fan our history) published in 1996 and surprisingly for Venezuelan levels, is available on our publishing market. It is the only work that examines the twentieth century in of the century, ie before it ended. Presented and coordinated by the former president and historian Ramón J. Velásquez, the book contains a series of essays and papers that presented the aforementioned foundation for analyzing the century also indicated at an event held the same year as the book's publication. Re studying classical aspects of politics: governments, cycles, elections and coups, but just as an analysis of the economy, culture, science and interesting aspects such as population, mixing, and the issue of corruption . The text concludes with a reflection of the ever remembered and appreciated José Ignacio Cabrujas called "My twentieth century. " For its introductory and simple language directed at the general public is a good work to meet and consult. 
Venezuelan politics from 1899 to 1958. In Diego Bautista Urbaneja, a political scientist. Published in 2004 by the Center Gumilla of UCAB is not really a book in the classic sense, but a notebook analytic (this is No. 39) from the collection of "Issues of socio-political formation" very brilliantly coordinated for several decades Gumilla Center. This is a text describing as its title says, the political the country since the arrival of the Andean General to the fall of the last military dictatorship, summing up very well the complex of events in the nearly 60 years. For space reasons the text does not extend much as it is aimed at general audiences, mostly students, but not the book has the defect of superficiality. Quite the contrary: although there is obviously much narrative and description is provided permanently analysis and interpretation of the most important aspects of the study period to provide the reader lights in better understanding the historical fact presented. We must also say that by the very nature of the text expressed in its title and the profession itself the author, this is a story focused exclusively on the political process (governments, coups and elections) so the words and analysis of other important aspects such as economics, international relations, social development culture will be minimized. Is mainly achieved in Books Studies related to the Center Gumilla and UCAB library. 
Venezuelan politics from 1958 until today. Once again Diego Bautista Urbaneja. It is the continuation of the previous text-but this book was the one who came first This edition is for 2007, but was originally released n 1997 when the collection of books called "socio-political training course, there is presented a curious list of the current series titles for this book (dated 2007 ) is No. 7 and we review the previous text, which is 2004's No. 39! We assume it was a goof late publisher and UCAB Gumilla Center. Well, back to our review, this text completes the cycle previously described and analyzed in the previous book, stretching beyond the twentieth century until the years of 1 º Hugo Chavez's government (1999-2007) [The original 1997 edition came to March of that year, the penultimate of the 2nd Caldera government (1994-1999)] is the style that we have seen, has the political developments with great narration and description, but it provides a constant analysis and interpretations of the most important aspects, focusing exclusively on these political processes, (governments, elections, constitutions and coups) with minimal reference to other areas (the economy, international relations, social development and culture) In our opinion is one of the best introductory texts to understand and succinctly summarizes the period of the civil Democracy and representative (1958-1999), which is for obvious reasons the origin of the current political process that we are still living in the country. As is specifically designed for student audiences, highly recommended. It gets you in Library Studies or the UCAB Liberia. 
De Cipriano Castro Carlos Andrés Pérez (1899-1979) José Luis De Silva Luongo. Published by Monte Avila Editores Latinoamericana . A voluminous and interesting book especially for being written by someone who is not a professional historian or have a close race in the humanities, (lawyer specializing in finance and economics) and secondly because it writes starred in one of the periods that says, (he was Minister for Finance) being a novelty for a few occasions that an officer writes the time and when it is exercised, according to our tradition historiographical-rather seeks to exonerate him and blame others. Here it is broken and instead provides a fairly objective of the 80 years covered. The text is divided into the typical classification by governments but by putting emphasis not only on politics but also in administrative and economic, explaining in some cases, certain laws, decrees, institutions and agencies great importance for the country's development. His only flaws we could say that besides being a very comprehensive text (930 pages) is that some major governments are treated very briefly compared with other equally important. Fairly well documented, with quotes from the press at the time and consultation reports and accounts of various ministries and branches of government, this book is an interesting resource for understanding the century, especially considering the marked trend in Venezuela of not write serious history of recent periods. It can be found mainly in the public library network, "South Libraries (formerly Kuiamare) De Herrera Campins Chavez. Again by José Luis Silva Luongo.
Posted by Alfa editorial. Corresponds as we can assume by its title to the chronological continuation of the previous. It was also the last work of the author who died shortly after publication of the book. Is besides the second part of the first book, an important approach to the most recent history of the country, usually being very immersed in the daily political struggle is difficult to access for analysis. Well we could say that this text is a kind of "History of the crisis and the decline of representative democracy "as it chronicles the main events from 1979 to 1999, when Chavez assumed and mentioned only the first acts of this government. Like the previous text makes use of extensive documentation mainly from the press at the time and memories of ministries, institutes and agencies. As the study period is shorter in the field chronologically (only about 5 governments) almost all administrations are analyzed with equality-not as in the previous book, where some governments were quickly seen while others do not-and there is more spice analysis and not mere description. For a period so recent and so very few reviewed and studied, this is a good text that serves to "browse the yesterday" and refresh your memory, with the only flaw, for which you feel uncomfortable, its scope: over 500 pages. It is available in major bookstores country's commercial spatially large chains. continue next month ...
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Dantesol
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