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This essay reviews the following works: An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World. By Ernesto Bassi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. Pp ix + 360. $26.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822362401. Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise. By Lina Britto. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. 352. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780520325470. Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia. By Lina del Castillo. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. Pp. 402. $30.00 paper back. ISBN: 9781496205483. Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia. By Alexander L. Fattal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. 304. $27.50 paperback. ISBN 9780226590646. 1892: Un ano insignificante; Orden policial y desorden social en la Bogota de fin de siglo. By Max S. Hering Torres. Bogota: Critica y Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2018. Pp. 245. COP$50.000 hardcover. ISBN: 9789584266606. Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia. By A. Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 360. $28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478002857. Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas. By Amy C. Offner. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. Pp. 400. $39.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780691190938. No Limits to Their Sway: Cartagena’s Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions. By Edgardo Perez Morales. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 248. $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826521927. The Politics of Taste: Beatriz Gonzalez and Cold War Aesthetics. By Ana Maria Reyes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 328. $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478003977.