Paul J. Vanderwood

Disorder and Progress

Bandits, Police, and Mexican Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This reissue of Professor Vanderwood's groundbreaking study-available again for the first time in a decade-examines bandits, police, and Mexican politics as a whole, showing how different groups used the agents of order and disorder to serve their interests. Originally published in 1981, Disorder and Progress was revised and updated in 1992. Added to the enlarged 1992 edition and included here in this reissue are the entirely new introduction, material on the period of the independence wars and on Pancho Villa, and an updated bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Latin American Silhouettes
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780842024396
• ISBN-10: 0842024395
• Artikelnr.: 22078698

Autorenporträt

By Paul J. Vanderwood

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introdouction: Badits, Real and Imagined Part 2 I The Balance of
Order and Disorder Chapter 3 Ambitious Bandits: Disorder Equals Progress
Chapter 4 The Aura of the King Chapter 5 The Spoils of Indpendence Chapter
6 Bent on Being Modern Chapter 7 Bandits into Police -and Vice Versa Part 8
II Toward the Western Model Chapter 9 Order, Disorder, and Development
Chapter 10 The Limits to Dictatorship Chapter 11 A Kind of Peace Part 12
III A Political Police Performance Chapter 13 Constabulary of Campesinos
and Artisans Chapter 14 The President's Police Chapter 15 It's the Image
That Counts Part 16 IV Demons of Revolution Unleashed Chapter 17 The
Rollercoaster Called Capitalism Chapter 18 Unraveling the Old Regime
Chapter 19 Disorder in Search of Order