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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln [Neb.] :
University of Nebraska Press,
2006
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.