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Faculty of Arts
University of Alberta

Johnson, David

Dr.  David Johnson

(Professor)


Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, (1975)

M.A., University of California, Berkeley, (1966)

A.B., Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, (1964) 

2-57C Tory Building University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-3628

david.johnson@ualberta.ca

Expertise & Research Interests 

Modern Latin America; Colombia, Mexico

Ongoing Research:

  • The Impact of Settlement Patterns on Politics and the Economy
  • The Impact of the War of the Thousand Days on Colombia (Continuing project based on research done in the past five years.)
  • The Changing Nature of Criminality in Colombia
  • Violence and Popular Culture in Colombia

Teaching 

  • HIST 111 - World History
  • HIST 120 - World History
  • HIST 241 - Colonial Latin America
  • HIST 242 - Modern Latin America
  • HIST 341 - Land and Labour in Latin America
  • HIST 342 - Political and Social Revolution in Latin America
  • HIST 441 - Topics in Latin American History to 1850
  • HIST 442 - Topics in Latin American History since 1850
  • HIST 498 - Directed Study
  • HIST 501 - Special Subject Fourth Year Honours
  • HIST 502 - Honours Directed Study
  • HIST 691 - Topics in Latin American History to 1850
  • HIST 692 - Topics in Latin American History since 1850
Publications

Books Written:

Santander Siglo XIX, Cambios socioeconómicos, Bogotá Valencia Editores, 1984, 309 p.

Refereed Articles:

"Impacto social de la Guerra de los Mil Días:  Criminalidad," Revista Humanidades, vol. xxiv, no. 2, julio-diciembre, 1995, 13-23.

"La guerra de los mil días:  La perspectiva desde los archivos," Estudio, #320, Dic. 1992, 58-66.

"Lo que hizo y no hizo el café: Los orígenes regionales de la Guerra de los Mil Dias", Revista UIS Humanidades, xx (1), enero-junio, 1991, 77-87.

"Algo de historia empresarial en Santander," Vanguardia Dominical,Bucaramanga, October 5, 1986, pp. 10-11.

"Reyes Gonzales Hermanos: La Formación de Capital durante la Época de la Regeneración en Colombia," Siglo XIX: Revista de Historia, México, Enero, 1986, pp. 235-264.  Revised with illustrations in Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico, Bogotá, XXIII, No. 9, 1986, pp. 25-44.

An edited version of the above article was published in Márgenes, Suplemento Literario del Diario de la Frontera, San Jose de Cúcuta, March 24, 1985.

"Los Santandereanos en Venezuela en el siglo XIX," Cursillo historia regional de Santander, Revista de la Controloría Departamental de Santander, 5 December 1984, pp. 69-83.

"Los sucesos de Bucaramanga" in Mario Acevedo Díaz, La Culebra Pico del Oro, Bogotá, Instituto Colombiano de Cultura, 1978, pp. 225-232 and throughout the book.

"Artesanos y tabacaleros en la economía santandereana", Centro de Investigaciones de la Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia, 1974, 27 p.