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Latin American Banditry as Peasant Resistance: A Dead-End Trail?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Christopher Birkbeck*
Affiliation:
Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela
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Abstract

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Commentary and Debate
Copyright
Copyright © 1991 by the University of Texas Press

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