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Banditry, Myth, and Terror in Cyprus and Other Mediterranean Societies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Paul Sant Cassia
Paul Sant Cassia
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University of Durham
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Although the concept of social banditry has received much critical attention since E. Hobsbawm published his book in 1969, the debate so far has perhaps been narrowly focused (Blok 1972; Vanderwood 1981; Dreissen 1983; Hart 1987; Koliopoulos 1987). Too often that debate has been framed in terms of whether bandits either express pre-political sentiments or prevent the emergence of peasant solidarity, rather than in terms of which types of rural structures encourage its emergence and reproduction, the psychology and sociology of terror, and how bandit myths may be created and used within nation-states or societies aspiring to nationhood.

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Violence and the State
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , October 1993 , pp. 773 - 795
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1993

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