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Bandits / Eric Hobsbawm.
LIBRA - Special HV6441 .H6 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brigands and robbers.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 226 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- New edition, [Fourth revised edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2000.
- Contents:
- Portrait of a Bandit 1
- 1 Bandits, States and Power 7
- 2 What is Social Banditry? 19
- 3 Who Becomes a Bandit? 34
- 4 The Noble Robber 46
- 5 The Avengers 63
- 6 Haiduks 77
- 7 The Economics and Politics of Banditry 91
- 8 Bandits and Revolutions 106
- 9 The Expropriators 120
- 10 The Bandit as Symbol 139
- Appendix A Women and Banditry 146
- Appendix B The Bandit Tradition 150.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [200]-208) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1565846192
- OCLC:
- 43706773
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