Forrest Hylton
Biographic Data
| ID | 629912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Forrest Hylton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Forrest |
| FAMILY NAME | Hylton |
| SIGNATURE | HYLTON F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal da Bahia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9826-022X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Colombia at the Crossroads
The victory of Gustavo Petro is a historic breakthrough in a country where independent popular forces have been systematically excluded from formal political representation for two centuries. What lies ahead
The Limits of Atlantic Revolution: Indigenous Power, Spectres of Saint-Domingue, and the Maracaibo Conspiracy of 1799
In the Maracaibo of 1799, Spanish authorities claimed to have uncovered a revolutionary plot to overthrow the Spanish monarchy and install a republic modeled on Saint-Domingue. In existing historical accounts, Spanish officials, free colored (pardo) militiamen in Maracaibo, and an Atlantic crew of sailors coming from Port-au-Prince play the leading roles. Although Spanish officials also claimed Guajiro Indians were coordinating and cooperating, t…
Charles W. Bergquist (1942–2020)
Charles “Chuck” Bergquist passed away peacefully in his sleep on July 30, 2020. An intense, politically engaged, generous scholar and friend, he was a pathbreaking activist historian of labor and capitalism who made major contributions to Colombian history and the comparative history of the Americas.Born to a working-class family in 1942, Bergquist grew up in Seattle, known for its strong culture of union organizing, the 1919 general strike, and …
What is history? Reflections from the edge of empires, nation-states, and disciplines
Cognitive mapping in the terror zone: An elegy for Colombia
Peace in Colombia: A New Growth Strategy
There is no denying the historical importance of the accords signed between the Colombian government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the country’s largest guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Arm
The sole owners of the land”: Empire, war, and authority in the Guajira Peninsula, 1761–1779
This essay reverses conventional images of the colonial Atlantic world by showing how Native power and politics set the parameters within which Spanish colonial officials acted. It charts shifting alliances between the latter and Guajiro alaulayus (leaders) – who were related by blood or marriage – in the 1760s and 1770s, and between alaulayus and the captains of non-Spanish ships. It argues that conflict and competition among alaulayus determine…
The Experience of Defeat
This paper argues that throughout the Cold War, the Colombian Left focused on building local power in the countryside, and abandoned the burgeoning urban working class, much of it informal, unwaged and unorganised, to the Right. Yet at every turn, landlords linked to local and regional political machines and military and police officials blocked or reversed reforms designed to modernise the countryside, as government-subsidised agro-industrial de…
Old wine, new bottles: In search of dialectics
Now is not your time; it's ours: Insurgent Confederation, "Race War," and Liberal State Formation in the Bolivian Federal War of 1899
Focusing on late nineteenth-century insurgent movements for self-government, sovereignty, and political representation in Bolivia in 1899, this essay explores issues of regional antagonism, elite fragmentation, and incipient class divisions within Indian peasant communities. I discuss the theoretical and methodological stakes involved in analyzing the Bolivian Federal War of 1899 and detail existing historiographic debate. Then I explore the geog…
Medellín: The Peace of thePacifiers
Additional informationNotes on contributorsForrest HyltonForrest Hylton, a Ph.D. candidate at New York University, is writing a dissertation on indigenous movements for self-government in late-19th-century Bolivia. He is the author of Evil Hour in Colombia (Verso, 2006) and, with Sinclair Thomson, Revolutionary Horizons: Bolivian Politics Past and Present (Verso,2007)
Death, Destruction, and Rebirth in Brooklyn
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever possesses it. — Roger Starr
A Revolutionary Identity
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra Years (Boston: South End Press, 2005), 304 pages, paperback, $18.00.Few U.S. revolutionaries of her generation have "lived to tell the tale" like Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, to borrow the title of Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs. Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra Years is the last volume of a trilogy including Red Dirt: Growing up Okie (University of Oklahoma Press, 1992) and …
Remaking Medellín
Transformed from murder capital to corporate boom town, Medellín has been hailed as a rare urban success story for neo-conservatism in South America. The singular progression of Escobar and Uribe’s hometown—cattle-trading post, industrial centre, drug-trafficking hub, neoliberal Latin Mecca
Evil Hour in Colombia
is the least understood of Latin American countries. Its human tragedy, which features terrifying levels of kidnapping, homicide and extortion, is generally ignored or exploited. In this urgent new work, Forrest Hylton, who has extensive first-hand experience of living and working in Colombia, explores its history of 150 years of political conflict, characterized by radical-popular mobilization and reactionary repression. He shows how patterns of…
Politics as Organized Crime in Colombia
Additional informationNotes on contributorsForrest HyltonForrest Hylton is a PhD candidate in history at New York University and author of An Evil Hour: Colombia in Historical Context, forthcoming from Verso
The Landslide in Bolivia
The Left owes its December victory in Bolivia to the popular movements that have stymied water and gas privatizations since 2000. Forrest Hylton surveys the landscape ahead, and the militant formation of Morales’s running mate Álvaro García Linera
The Chequered Rainbow
As tensions mount on the eve of national elections in Bolivia, a study of the longest insurrectionary cycle of any Latin American country, stretching from the late eighteenth century to the present day. The explosive fusion of ethnic and class aspirations in the newest round of risings, overthrowing two presidents in as many years
I. Insurgent Bolivia
Colombia: An Evil Hour
The longue durée of Uribe’s Colombia, from its origins in the mid-19th century, through the Violencia of the postwar years, to the coming of today’s guerrillas, narco-traffickers and paramilitaries. Conditions and prospects of the latest campaign to wipe out armed insurgency against Latin America’s oldest ruling order
Patient visiting and the siting of hospitals in rural areas
The Experience of Defeat
This paper argues that throughout the Cold War, the Colombian Left focused on building local power in the countryside, and abandoned the burgeoning urban working class, much of it informal, unwaged and unorganised, to the Right. Yet at every turn, landlords linked to local and regional political machines and military and police officials blocked or reversed reforms designed to modernise the countryside, as government-subsidised agro-industrial de…
The sole owners of the land”: Empire, war, and authority in the Guajira Peninsula, 1761–1779
This essay reverses conventional images of the colonial Atlantic world by showing how Native power and politics set the parameters within which Spanish colonial officials acted. It charts shifting alliances between the latter and Guajiro alaulayus (leaders) – who were related by blood or marriage – in the 1760s and 1770s, and between alaulayus and the captains of non-Spanish ships. It argues that conflict and competition among alaulayus determine…
The Limits of Atlantic Revolution: Indigenous Power, Spectres of Saint-Domingue, and the Maracaibo Conspiracy of 1799
In the Maracaibo of 1799, Spanish authorities claimed to have uncovered a revolutionary plot to overthrow the Spanish monarchy and install a republic modeled on Saint-Domingue. In existing historical accounts, Spanish officials, free colored (pardo) militiamen in Maracaibo, and an Atlantic crew of sailors coming from Port-au-Prince play the leading roles. Although Spanish officials also claimed Guajiro Indians were coordinating and cooperating, t…
Now is not your time; it's ours: Insurgent Confederation, "Race War," and Liberal State Formation in the Bolivian Federal War of 1899
Focusing on late nineteenth-century insurgent movements for self-government, sovereignty, and political representation in Bolivia in 1899, this essay explores issues of regional antagonism, elite fragmentation, and incipient class divisions within Indian peasant communities. I discuss the theoretical and methodological stakes involved in analyzing the Bolivian Federal War of 1899 and detail existing historiographic debate. Then I explore the geog…
Remaking Medellín
Transformed from murder capital to corporate boom town, Medellín has been hailed as a rare urban success story for neo-conservatism in South America. The singular progression of Escobar and Uribe’s hometown—cattle-trading post, industrial centre, drug-trafficking hub, neoliberal Latin Mecca
Patient visiting and the siting of hospitals in rural areas
Colombia: An Evil Hour
The longue durée of Uribe’s Colombia, from its origins in the mid-19th century, through the Violencia of the postwar years, to the coming of today’s guerrillas, narco-traffickers and paramilitaries. Conditions and prospects of the latest campaign to wipe out armed insurgency against Latin America’s oldest ruling order
I. Insurgent Bolivia
The Chequered Rainbow
As tensions mount on the eve of national elections in Bolivia, a study of the longest insurrectionary cycle of any Latin American country, stretching from the late eighteenth century to the present day. The explosive fusion of ethnic and class aspirations in the newest round of risings, overthrowing two presidents in as many years
Evil Hour in Colombia
is the least understood of Latin American countries. Its human tragedy, which features terrifying levels of kidnapping, homicide and extortion, is generally ignored or exploited. In this urgent new work, Forrest Hylton, who has extensive first-hand experience of living and working in Colombia, explores its history of 150 years of political conflict, characterized by radical-popular mobilization and reactionary repression. He shows how patterns of…
Politics as Organized Crime in Colombia
Additional informationNotes on contributorsForrest HyltonForrest Hylton is a PhD candidate in history at New York University and author of An Evil Hour: Colombia in Historical Context, forthcoming from Verso
The Landslide in Bolivia
The Left owes its December victory in Bolivia to the popular movements that have stymied water and gas privatizations since 2000. Forrest Hylton surveys the landscape ahead, and the militant formation of Morales’s running mate Álvaro García Linera
Remaking Medellín
Transformed from murder capital to corporate boom town, Medellín has been hailed as a rare urban success story for neo-conservatism in South America. The singular progression of Escobar and Uribe’s hometown—cattle-trading post, industrial centre, drug-trafficking hub, neoliberal Latin Mecca
Medellín: The Peace of thePacifiers
Additional informationNotes on contributorsForrest HyltonForrest Hylton, a Ph.D. candidate at New York University, is writing a dissertation on indigenous movements for self-government in late-19th-century Bolivia. He is the author of Evil Hour in Colombia (Verso, 2006) and, with Sinclair Thomson, Revolutionary Horizons: Bolivian Politics Past and Present (Verso,2007)
Death, Destruction, and Rebirth in Brooklyn
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever possesses it. — Roger Starr
A Revolutionary Identity
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra Years (Boston: South End Press, 2005), 304 pages, paperback, $18.00.Few U.S. revolutionaries of her generation have "lived to tell the tale" like Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, to borrow the title of Gabriel García Márquez's memoirs. Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra Years is the last volume of a trilogy including Red Dirt: Growing up Okie (University of Oklahoma Press, 1992) and …
Old wine, new bottles: In search of dialectics
Now is not your time; it's ours: Insurgent Confederation, "Race War," and Liberal State Formation in the Bolivian Federal War of 1899
Focusing on late nineteenth-century insurgent movements for self-government, sovereignty, and political representation in Bolivia in 1899, this essay explores issues of regional antagonism, elite fragmentation, and incipient class divisions within Indian peasant communities. I discuss the theoretical and methodological stakes involved in analyzing the Bolivian Federal War of 1899 and detail existing historiographic debate. Then I explore the geog…
The Experience of Defeat
This paper argues that throughout the Cold War, the Colombian Left focused on building local power in the countryside, and abandoned the burgeoning urban working class, much of it informal, unwaged and unorganised, to the Right. Yet at every turn, landlords linked to local and regional political machines and military and police officials blocked or reversed reforms designed to modernise the countryside, as government-subsidised agro-industrial de…
Peace in Colombia: A New Growth Strategy
There is no denying the historical importance of the accords signed between the Colombian government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the country’s largest guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Arm
The sole owners of the land”: Empire, war, and authority in the Guajira Peninsula, 1761–1779
This essay reverses conventional images of the colonial Atlantic world by showing how Native power and politics set the parameters within which Spanish colonial officials acted. It charts shifting alliances between the latter and Guajiro alaulayus (leaders) – who were related by blood or marriage – in the 1760s and 1770s, and between alaulayus and the captains of non-Spanish ships. It argues that conflict and competition among alaulayus determine…
Cognitive mapping in the terror zone: An elegy for Colombia
Charles W. Bergquist (1942–2020)
Charles “Chuck” Bergquist passed away peacefully in his sleep on July 30, 2020. An intense, politically engaged, generous scholar and friend, he was a pathbreaking activist historian of labor and capitalism who made major contributions to Colombian history and the comparative history of the Americas.Born to a working-class family in 1942, Bergquist grew up in Seattle, known for its strong culture of union organizing, the 1919 general strike, and …
What is history? Reflections from the edge of empires, nation-states, and disciplines
Colombia at the Crossroads
The victory of Gustavo Petro is a historic breakthrough in a country where independent popular forces have been systematically excluded from formal political representation for two centuries. What lies ahead
The Limits of Atlantic Revolution: Indigenous Power, Spectres of Saint-Domingue, and the Maracaibo Conspiracy of 1799
In the Maracaibo of 1799, Spanish authorities claimed to have uncovered a revolutionary plot to overthrow the Spanish monarchy and install a republic modeled on Saint-Domingue. In existing historical accounts, Spanish officials, free colored (pardo) militiamen in Maracaibo, and an Atlantic crew of sailors coming from Port-au-Prince play the leading roles. Although Spanish officials also claimed Guajiro Indians were coordinating and cooperating, t…
Political science (16 works) · History and Politics in Latin America (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · History (8 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia (4 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (4 works)