Disorder and Progress: Bandits, Police, and Mexican Development
Paul J. Vanderwood - Disorder and Progress: Bandits, Police, and Mexican Development
Published: 1992-10-01 | ISBN: 0842024387, 0842024395 | EPUB + MOBI | 320 pages | 5 MB
This enlarged version expands upon the 1981 edition of "Disorder and Progress" for in the intervening decade there has been a dramatic and vital rethinking of the role of bandits in society and of the instruments of maintaining order. The author offers an article-length introduction that reviews and analyses current thought on banditry, and incorporates new material on the period of the Mexican Independence wars; there is new material on the famous brigand Pancho Villa. More than a simple account of the themes of order and disorder, Vanderwood uses the prism of the bandit and police officer to examine general Mexican politics, primarily from 1750 to about 1920, the Juarez and Diaz years. Through 16 specific studies of bandits, a general history of Mexico emerges.