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- ISBN 9781783163434
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2015
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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
Academic market in UK and USA, with readership in Spain and Latin America, particularly Mexico. Written accessibly so would potentially appeal to a keen lay reader.
