Lords of the Mountain: Social Banditry and Peasant Protest in Cuba, 1878-1918

Lords of the Mountain: Social Banditry and Peasant Protest in Cuba, 1878-1918

Lords of the Mountain: Social Banditry and Peasant Protest in Cuba, 1878-1918

Lords of the Mountain: Social Banditry and Peasant Protest in Cuba, 1878-1918

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Overview

Lords of the Mountain is a colorful narrative that views how Cuba's violent history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century was also a history of economic violence. From the 1870s, the expanding sugar industry began to swallow up rural communities and destroy the traditional land tenure system, as the great sugar estates-the “latifundia” dominated the economy. Perez chronicles the popular resistance to these powerful landholders, and the violent uprisings and banditry propagated against them.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822985136
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 03/15/1989
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Edition description: 1
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Louis A. Pérez Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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