2021-01-282015-01-012145132XSCOPUS;2-s2.0-84945296272http://hdl.handle.net/10784/25177The relations between wars and processes of social structuring have a relevant place in social sciences. This article refers to the colombian civil war of 1851, as the stage for the construction of the Nation-State, from its political and social determinants, the political and military actions of the parties, the regional elites, the clergy, the people, and the implications of the war in the context at the time in the XIXth Century. The sources for this analysis are memoirs, chronicles, official correspondence, and press.spahttps://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2145-132Xinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleCivil warColombiaNation-state2021-01-28Jurado Jurado, Juan Carlos10.15446/historelo.v7n14.47784