id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt zw12z32010c Jairo Campuzano-Hoyos The Quest for Material Progress in Global Perspective: Colombia 1840s-1900s 1904 .txt text/plain 247 9 35 I argue that Colombian progress brokers sought models of material and intellectual progress from among other Latin American countries between the 1840s and the 1900s, an issue largely ignored in the historiography on Colombia and on Latin America in general. Thus, although the way Colombians conceived of progress was to some extent linked with ideological principles, the traditional conservative-liberal dichotomy does not work to circumscribe a group of scattered Colombians looking for models of material progress in a global perspective. cache/zw12z32010c.txt txt/zw12z32010c.txt