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Cowboys and Caudillos : Frontier Ideology of the Americas
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780879724849
- ISBN-10: 0879724846
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publish Date: January 1990
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.39 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.56 pounds
- Page Count: 182
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