Title Bandit nation : a history of outlaws and cultural struggle in Mexico, 1810-1920 / Chris Frazer.

Publication Info.	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2006]
	©2006

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Description	1 online resource (x, 243 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.
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.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	Presents an analysis of the cultural impact that banditry had on Mexico from the time of its independence to the Mexican Revolution. This book focuses on the nature and role of foreign travel accounts, novels, and popular ballads, to analyze how and why Mexicans and Anglo-Saxon travellers used images of banditry to influence state formation.
Subject	Outlaws -- Mexico -- History.
	Brigands and robbers -- Mexico -- History.
	Popular culture -- Mexico.
	Brigands and robbers.
	History.
	Outlaws.
	Popular culture.
	TRUE CRIME -- General.
	Brigands and robbers. (OCoLC)fst00838984
	Outlaws. (OCoLC)fst01049233
	Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
	Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Frazer, Chris, 1959- Bandit nation. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006 0803220316 (DLC) 2006009585 (OCoLC)65340978
ISBN	0803252315 (electronic bk.)
	9780803252318 (electronic bk.)

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