Lawless Liberators: Political Banditry and Cuban Independence

by Rosalie Schwartz

Among the forces that took the field in the 1890s in an attempt to overturn the Spanish colonial regime in Cuba were a large number of rural bandits. The alliance between outlaws and more respectable separatists was not accidental, nor did it prove peripheral to Independence strategies. Thieves, extortioners, kidnappers, and killers who cast their lot with veteran insurgents emerged from and contributed to, a century of social and economic upheaval;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822308827
• ISBN13: 9780822308829
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.