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User Review - jcbrunner - LibraryThingI finally finished Eric Hobsbawn's classic work on agrarian bandits whose role as social rebels comes mostly from fiction rather than historical reality. Robin Hood, Wilhelm Tell and Zorro are not ... Read full review
Contents
Preface | 11 |
What is Social Banditry? | 13 |
Who becomes a Bandit? omes | 25 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Bandits Libros de historia Pageant of history series |
| Author | Eric J. Hobsbawm |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press, 1969 |
| ISBN | 0297178504, 9780297178507 |
| Length | 128 pages |
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