![]() Interestingly, Hobsbawm provided a brief foreword to the original Spanish edition, which is also included in this translation. They also revealed levels of wanton violence, rape, and ritualized murder that no respectable social bandit, concerned with fostering ties to peasant supporters, would have inflicted. Hobsbawm, Sánchez and Meertens uncovered bandits with deeply rooted political connections to the elite-led political parties of Colombia. Unlike the prepolitical social bandit, postulated by the late Eric J. They tapped a wondrous range of sources, from legal investigations to news reports to popular songs. ![]() Sánchez and Meertens provided a compelling range of bandit images, from praiseful peasant mythology to condemnatory government disinformation. ![]() In its original 1983 Spanish version, Bandoleros, gamonales y campesinos, this study of banditry during Colombia's Violencia made important contributions to Latin American historiography. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |