Revolutionaries, rebels and robbers : the golden age of banditry in Mexico, Latin America and the Chicano American Southwest, 1850-1950 / Pascale Baker.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-213) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The Idea of a Golden Age of Latin American Banditry 1850-1950 -- The Figure of the Bandit in History, Culture and Social Theory -- Mexico: The Myth of the Bandit Nation -- Mexico's Classic Bandit Narrative: Los de abajo -- Beyond Mexico I: from Cangaceiros to Cowboys, Latin America's Bandit Cultures of the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries -- Beyond Mexico II: Chicano Bandit Cultures -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"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."--Provided by publisher.
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