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Bandit Nation : A History of Outlaws and Cultural Struggle in Mexico, 1810-1920 /

"Bandit Nation is the first complete analysis of the cultural impact that banditry had on Mexico from the time of its independence to the Mexican Revolution. Chris Frazer focuses on the nature and role of foreign travel accounts, novels, and popular ballads, known as corridos, to analyze how an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Frazer, Chris, 1959-
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, 2006
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : memory, legend, and history
  • Armed bodies of men : banditry and the Mexican state
  • The nest and nursery of brigands : travelers and bandits
  • Unsolved mysteries of civilization : banditry in the Mexican novel
  • With her pistols in her holster : bandits and corridos
  • Survival of the fittest : modernity and the Mexican atavist
  • Conclusion : the spirit of popular banditry.