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

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.

Издательство

University of Pittsburgh Pre

Год

1989

Страниц

289

Язык

английский

ISBN

9780822976578