Heroes on Horseback: A Life and Times of the Last Gaucho CaudillosHeroes on Horseback takes a new look at a topic that will not go away: the charismatic leadership known as caudillismo that has characterized so much of South American history. Why were there so many Spanish American caudillos and so few in Brazil? Where did caudillos get their power? Answers emerge in John Charles Chasteen's account of the short careers of two back-country caudillos, Gumercindo and Aparicio Saravia, sons of a Brazilian immigrant family in northern Uruguay. |
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Heroes on Horseback: A Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos John Charles Chasteen Limited preview - 1995 |
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