Bandidos: The Varieties of Latin American Banditry

by Richard W. Slatta

Overview

This collection explores the varieties of banditry in Latin America and provides a major comparative testing of Hobsbawm's model of the social bandit. Comprised of a unique collection of essays, it contributes to a more accurate understanding of bandit leaders and followers, as well as to the analysis of banditry as a social phenomenon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313253010
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/04/1987
Series:	Contributions in Criminology and Penology , #14
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	229
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

RICHARD W. SLATTA is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction to Banditry in Latin America by Richard W. Slatta
Nineteenth-Century Mexico's Profiteering Bandits by Paul J. Vanderwood
Banditry and Social Conflict on the Venezuelan Llanos by Miguel Izard and Richard W. Slatta
Images of Social Banditry on the Argentine Pampa by Richard W. Slatta
The Oligarchical Limitations of Social Banditry in Brazil: The Case of the "Good" Thief Antonio Silvino by Linda Lewin
Brazilian Cangaceiros as Social Bandits: A Critical Appraisal by Bill Jaynes Chandler
Andean Banditry and Peasant Community Organization, 1882-1930 by Erick D. Langer
"La Chambelona": Political Protest, Sugar, and Social Banditry in Cuba, 1914-1917 by Louis A. Perez, Jr.
Political Banditry and the Colombian Violencia by Gonzalo G. Sanchez and Donny Meertens. Translated by Edna Gutierrez de Moolick
Hollywood Bandits, 1910-1981 by Allen L. Woll
Latin American Banditry and Criminological Theory by Dretha M. Phillips
Conclusion: Banditry in Latin America by Richard W. Slatta
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors