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Author : Chris Frazer
Release : 2006-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Bandit Nation by : Chris Frazer
Download or read book Bandit Nation written by Chris Frazer. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the bandit in history and current legend, showing how those memories remain alive and well in Mexican society.
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Release : 1928
Genre : Current events
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Book Synopsis The Nation by :
Download or read book The Nation written by . This book was released on 1928. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juan Pablo Dabove
Release : 2017-07-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Bandit Narratives in Latin America by : Juan Pablo Dabove
Download or read book Bandit Narratives in Latin America written by Juan Pablo Dabove. This book was released on 2017-07-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bandits seem ubiquitous in Latin American culture. Even contemporary actors of violence are framed by narratives that harken back to old images of the rural bandit, either to legitimize or delegitimize violence, or to intervene in larger conflicts within or between nation-states. However, the bandit seems to escape a straightforward definition, since the same label can apply to the leader of thousands of soldiers (as in the case of Villa) or to the humble highwayman eking out a meager living by waylaying travelers at machete point. Dabove presents the reader not with a definition of the bandit, but with a series of case studies showing how the bandit trope was used in fictional and non-fictional narratives by writers and political leaders, from the Mexican Revolution to the present. By examining cases from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela, from Pancho Villa's autobiography to Hugo Chavez's appropriation of his "outlaw" grandfather, Dabove reveals how bandits function as a symbol to expose the dilemmas or aspirations of cultural and political practices, including literature as a social practice and as an ethical experience.
Author : Pascale Baker
Release : 2015-10-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 453/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Revolutionaries, Rebels and Robbers by : Pascale Baker
Download or read book Revolutionaries, Rebels and Robbers written by Pascale Baker. This book was released on 2015-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Pilar M. Herr
Release : 2019-12-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Contested Nation by : Pilar M. Herr
Download or read book Contested Nation written by Pilar M. Herr. This book was released on 2019-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the colonial period the Spanish crown made numerous unsuccessful attempts to conquer Araucanía, Chile’s southern borderlands region. Contested Nation argues that with Chilean independence, Araucanía—because of its status as a separate nation-state—became essential to the territorial integrity of the new Chilean Republic. This book studies how Araucanía’s indigenous inhabitants, the Mapuche, played a central role in the new Chilean state’s pursuit of an expansionist policy that simultaneously exalted indigenous bravery while relegating the Mapuche to second-class citizenship. It also examines other subaltern groups, particularly bandits, who challenged the nation-state’s monopoly on force and were thus regarded as criminals and enemies unfit for citizenship in Chilean society. Pilar M. Herr’s work advances our understanding of early state formation in Chile by viewing this process through the lens of Chilean-Mapuche relations. She provides a thorough historical context and suggests that Araucanía was central to the process of post-independence nation building and territorial expansion in Chile.
