History of Bogotá. Volumes I, II and III

This new edition of the three-volume History of Bogotá is a corrected, redesigned and graphically complemented reprint of the first two volumes: Conquest and Colony by Julián Vargas Lesmes and Siglo XIX by Eugenio Gutiérrez Cely; The third volume, which corresponds to the 20th century and the current 21st century, is a new work by the historian Fabio Zambrano Pantoja, professor at the National University, who had also written the text of this volume for the previous edition. Seen as a whole, the work is an essential and fascinating document about the capital. The history of its physical expansion, the evolution of its services and institutions, its assets and its failures, is a legacy that is required reading for its current and future inhabitants.