Lords of the Mountain: Social Banditry and Peasant Protest in Cuba, 1878-1918

by Louis A. Pérez Jr.

Book Overview

Lords of the Mountain is a colorful narrative that views how Cuba's violent history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century was also a history of economic violence. From the 1870s, the expanding sugar industry began to swallow up rural communities and destroy the traditional land tenure system, as the great sugar estates-the \u201clatifundia\u201d dominated the economy. Perez chronicles the popular resistance to these powerful landholders,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822985136
• ISBN13: 9780822985136
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"