The purpose of this conference is to understand how officers, corporations and administrative bodies at different levels interacted with each other within and between polities. The local level of analysis is key to understanding this.
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The picture is of conservative soldiers and local officials during a 19th C civil war, taken from Malcolm Deas and Patricia Pinzon de Lewin (eds), Colombia a través de la fotografia, 1842-2010 (Madrid: Fundacion Mapfre/Taurus, 2011)