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

ISBN-13: 9780822985136 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 288 str.

Jr. Louis A. Perez

Opis

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."