Cowboys and Caudillos: Frontier Ideology of the Americas

Cowboys and Caudillos: Frontier Ideology of the Americas

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Publisher's Synopsis

Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man a caudillo to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States the cowboy who makes space safe for Anglo colonization."

Book information

ISBN: 9780879724849
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint: Popular Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 174
Weight: 254g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 10mm