Revolutionaries, Rebels and Robbers
The Golden Age of Banditry in Mexico, Latin America and the Chicano American Southwest, 1850-1950
Author(s) Pascale Baker
Language: English
Genre(s): History
Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies
- October 2015 · 272 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9781783163434
- · eBook - pdf - 9781783163441
- · eBook - epub - 9781783163458
About The Book
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.
Contents
Introduction: The Idea of a Golden Age of Latin American Banditry 1850-1950
1. The Figure of the Bandit in History, Culture and Social Theory
2. Mexico: The Myth of the Bandit Nation
3. Mexico’s Classic Bandit Narrative: Los de abajo
4. Beyond Mexico I: Bandit Cultures in Latin America
5. Beyond Mexico II: Chicano Bandit Cultures
Conclusion
Contents
Introduction: The Idea of a Golden Age of Latin American Banditry 1850-1950
1. The Figure of the Bandit in History, Culture and Social Theory
2. Mexico: The Myth of the Bandit Nation
3. Mexico’s Classic Bandit Narrative: Los de abajo
4. Beyond Mexico I: Bandit Cultures in Latin America
5. Beyond Mexico II: Chicano Bandit Cultures
Conclusion
Contents
Introduction: The Idea of a Golden Age of Latin American Banditry 1850-1950
1.The Figure of the Bandit in History, Culture and Social Theory
2.Mexico: The Myth of the Bandit Nation
3.Mexico’s Classic Bandit Narrative: Los de abajo
4.Beyond Mexico I: Bandit Cultures in Latin America
5.Beyond Mexico II: Chicano Bandit Cultures
Conclusion