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Revolutionaries, rebels and robbers : the golden age of banditry in Mexico, Latin America and the Chicano American Southwest, 1850-1950 / Pascale Baker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Pascale, author.
- Series:
- Iberian and Latin American studies.
- Iberian and Latin American Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brigands and robbers--Latin America--History.
- Brigands and robbers.
- Brigands and robbers--Mexico--History.
- Revolutionaries--Mexico--History.
- Revolutionaries.
- Revolutionaries--Latin America--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, [Wales] : University of Wales Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume charts the rise of the Robin Hood phenomenon in parts of Latin America, especially Mexico, between 1850 and 1950, arguing that the afterlives of bandits captured the public imagination to make them lasting symbols of national identity and cultural heritage.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Series Editors' Foreword
- Introduction: The Idea of a 'Golden Age' of Latin American Banditry, 1850-1950
- The Figure of the Bandit in History, Culture and Social Theory
- The pro-anti- Hobsbawm polemic
- Approaches to the term bandit
- Bandidas, soldaderas y sicarias: writing women into Latin American banditry
- The romance of Robin Hood in Latin America
- Mexico: The Myth of the Bandit Nation
- Manuel Lozada and La Carambada
- Los Plateados
- Heraclio Bernal
- Chucho el Roto
- Jesús Negrete
- Las señoritas rateras
- Santañón
- Pancho Villa
- The Mexican bandit novel
- Mexico's Classic Bandit Narrative: Los de abajo
- Azuela and the underdogs: attitudes and ambivalences
- Demetrio Macías: bandit hero of the underdogs
- 'La Pintada y sus compañeros': the bandida as leader in los de abajo
- Beyond Mexico I: From Cangaceiros to Cowboys: Latin America's Bandit Cultures of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- Part 1: Banditry in Cuba
- Part 2: Banditry in Venezuela
- Part 3: Banditry in Argentina
- Part 4: Banditry in Brazil
- Beyond Mexico II: Chicano Bandit Cultures
- Chicano banditry: a history
- Banditry in California, 1848-1900
- Banditry in Texas, 1848-1915
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 5
- Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 3, 2015).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78316-344-5
- OCLC:
- 923250779
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