Revolutionaries, Rebels and Robbers
The Golden Age of Banditry in Mexico, Latin America and the Chicano American Southwest, 1850-1950
Nonfiction, History, Americas, South America, Revolutionary
| Author: | Pascale Baker | ISBN: | 9781783163458 |
| Publisher: | University of Wales Press | Publication: | October 2, 2015 |
| Imprint: | University of Wales Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Pascale Baker |
| ISBN: | 9781783163458 |
| Publisher: | University of Wales Press |
| Publication: | October 2, 2015 |
| Imprint: | University of Wales Press |
| Language: | English |
This volume delivers a comprehensive study of banditry in Latin America and of its cultural representation. In its scope across the continent, looking closely at nations where bandit culture has manifested itself forcefully ― Mexico (the subject of the case study), the Hispanic south-west of the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba ― it imagines a ‘Golden Age’ of banditry in Latin America from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1940s when so-called ‘social bandits’, an idea first proposed by Eric Hobsbawm and further developed here, flourished. In its content, this work offers the most detailed and wide-ranging study of its kind currently available.
This volume delivers a comprehensive study of banditry in Latin America and of its cultural representation. In its scope across the continent, looking closely at nations where bandit culture has manifested itself forcefully ― Mexico (the subject of the case study), the Hispanic south-west of the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba ― it imagines a ‘Golden Age’ of banditry in Latin America from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1940s when so-called ‘social bandits’, an idea first proposed by Eric Hobsbawm and further developed here, flourished. In its content, this work offers the most detailed and wide-ranging study of its kind currently available.
