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Book Bandit Nation

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  • Author : Chris Frazer
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 0803220316
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Bandit Nation written by Chris Frazer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the bandit in history and current legend, showing how those memories remain alive and well in Mexican society.

Book The Nation

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bandit Narratives in Latin America

Download or read book Bandit Narratives in Latin America written by Juan Pablo Dabove and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bandits seem ubiquitous in Latin American culture. Even contemporary actors of violence are framed by narratives that harken back to old images of the rural bandit, either to legitimize or delegitimize violence, or to intervene in larger conflicts within or between nation-states. However, the bandit seems to escape a straightforward definition, since the same label can apply to the leader of thousands of soldiers (as in the case of Villa) or to the humble highwayman eking out a meager living by waylaying travelers at machete point. Dabove presents the reader not with a definition of the bandit, but with a series of case studies showing how the bandit trope was used in fictional and non-fictional narratives by writers and political leaders, from the Mexican Revolution to the present. By examining cases from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela, from Pancho Villa's autobiography to Hugo Chavez's appropriation of his "outlaw" grandfather, Dabove reveals how bandits function as a symbol to expose the dilemmas or aspirations of cultural and political practices, including literature as a social practice and as an ethical experience.

Book Revolutionaries  Rebels and Robbers

Download or read book Revolutionaries Rebels and Robbers written by Pascale Baker and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume delivers a comprehensive study of banditry in Latin America and of its cultural representation. In its scope across the continent, looking closely at nations where bandit culture has manifested itself forcefully ― Mexico (the subject of the case study), the Hispanic south-west of the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba ― it imagines a ‘Golden Age’ of banditry in Latin America from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1940s when so-called ‘social bandits’, an idea first proposed by Eric Hobsbawm and further developed here, flourished. In its content, this work offers the most detailed and wide-ranging study of its kind currently available.

Book Contested Nation

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  • Author : Pilar M. Herr
  • Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
  • Release : 2019-12-01
  • ISBN : 0826360955
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book Contested Nation written by Pilar M. Herr and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the colonial period the Spanish crown made numerous unsuccessful attempts to conquer Araucanía, Chile’s southern borderlands region. Contested Nation argues that with Chilean independence, Araucanía—because of its status as a separate nation-state—became essential to the territorial integrity of the new Chilean Republic. This book studies how Araucanía’s indigenous inhabitants, the Mapuche, played a central role in the new Chilean state’s pursuit of an expansionist policy that simultaneously exalted indigenous bravery while relegating the Mapuche to second-class citizenship. It also examines other subaltern groups, particularly bandits, who challenged the nation-state’s monopoly on force and were thus regarded as criminals and enemies unfit for citizenship in Chilean society. Pilar M. Herr’s work advances our understanding of early state formation in Chile by viewing this process through the lens of Chilean-Mapuche relations. She provides a thorough historical context and suggests that Araucanía was central to the process of post-independence nation building and territorial expansion in Chile.

Book The Right and the Nation

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  • Author : Toni Morant i Ariño
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2023-09-12
  • ISBN : 1000935620
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Right and the Nation written by Toni Morant i Ariño and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the influence of right-wing political cultures (including conservatism, political Catholicism, reactionary nationalism and fascism) on nation-building processes and the creation of national identities in modern times. The chapters extend the focus of analysis across the different cultures and movements of the Right, their broad geographical spread, as well as cultural factors. Adopting a transnational perspective, this volume highlights the significance of a series of processes – such as the growth of nationalist imaginaries and political cultures – that extended beyond national boundaries and were often articulated via cross-border dynamics. Special attention is paid to the political cultures and transnational networks of the Right in Europe and Latin America. Case studies including countries such as Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina provide the reader with a broad overview of the circulation of right-wing and conservative thinking. Through an innovative approach, this volume offers scholars, students and the interested reader a valuable historical perspective to understand the development and expansion of right-wing nationalist and authoritarian positions.

Book The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Download or read book The Journal of Abnormal Psychology written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology

Download or read book The Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paramilitarism

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  • Author : Uğur Ümit Üngör
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-07-03
  • ISBN : 0192558986
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Paramilitarism written by Uğur Ümit Üngör and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the deserts of Sudan to the jungles of Colombia, and from the streets of Belfast to the mountains of Kurdistan, paramilitaries have appeared in violent conflicts in very different settings. Paramilitaries are generally depicted as irregular armed organizations that carry out acts of violence against civilians on behalf of a state. In doing so, they undermine the state's monopoly of legitimate violence, while at the same time creating a breeding ground for criminal activities. Why do governments with functioning police forces and armies use paramilitary groups? This study tackles this question through the prism of the interpenetration of paramilitaries and the state. The author interprets paramilitarism as the ability of the state to successfully outsource mass political violence against civilians that transforms and traumatizes societies. It analyses how paramilitarism can be understood in global context, and how paramilitarism is connected to transformations of warfare and state-society relations. By comparing a broad range of cases, it looks at how paramilitarism has made a profound impact in a large number of countries that were different, but nevertheless shared a history of pro-government militia activity. A thorough understanding of paramilitarism can clarify the direction and intensity of violence in wartime and peacetime. The volume examines the issues of international involvement, institutional support, organized crime, party politics, and personal ties.

Book The Atlantic Monthly

Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Maintenance of Peace  Or  The Foundations of Domestic and International Peace as Deduced from a Study of the History of Nations

Download or read book The Maintenance of Peace Or The Foundations of Domestic and International Peace as Deduced from a Study of the History of Nations written by Samuel Curtis Vestal and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outlook

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 722 pages

Download or read book Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Outlook

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 714 pages

Download or read book New Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Outlook

Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outlook and Independent

Download or read book Outlook and Independent written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : United States. Committee on Public Information. Division of Four Minute Men
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Committee on Public Information. Division of Four Minute Men and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sandino s Nation

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  • Author : Stephen Henighan
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2014-04-01
  • ISBN : 0773582436
  • Pages : 648 pages

Download or read book Sandino s Nation written by Stephen Henighan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez are two of the most influential Latin American intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Addressing Nicaragua's struggle for self-definition from divergent ethnic, religious, generational, political, and class backgrounds, they constructed distinct yet compatible visions of national history, anchored in a reappraisal of the early twentieth-century insurgent leader Augusto César Sandino. During the Sandinista Revolution of 1979-90, Cardenal, appointed Nicaragua's minister of culture, became one of the most provocative and internationally recognized figures of liberation theology, while Ramírez, a member of the revolutionary junta, and later elected vice-president of Nicaragua, emerged as an authoritative figure for third world nationalism. But before all else, the two were groundbreaking creative writers. Through a close reading of the works by Nicaragua's best-known and most prolific modern authors, Sandino's Nation studies the construction of Nicaraguan national identity during three distinct periods of the country’s recent history - before, during, and after the 1979-90 revolution. Stephen Henighan offers rigorous textual analyses of poems, memoirs, essays, and novels, interwoven with a sharply narrated history of Nicaragua. The only comprehensive study of the careers of Cardenal and Ramírez, Sandino's Nation is essential to understanding transformations to both Nicaragua and the role of the writer in Latin America.