Disorder and Progress - Bandits, Police, and Mexican Development

This reissue of Professor Vanderwood's groundbreaking study-available again for the first time in a decade-examines bandits, police, and Mexican politics as a whole, showing how different groups used the agents of order and disorder to serve their interests. Originally published in 1981, Disorder and Progress was revised and updated in 1992. Added to the enlarged 1992 edition and included here in this reissue are the entirely new introduction, material on the period of the independence wars and on Pancho Villa, and an updated bibliography.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introdouction: Badits, Real and Imagined Part 2 I The Balance of Order and Disorder Chapter 3 Ambitious Bandits: Disorder Equals Progress Chapter 4 The Aura of the King Chapter 5 The Spoils of Indpendence Chapter 6 Bent on Being Modern Chapter 7 Bandits into Police -and Vice Versa Part 8 II Toward the Western Model Chapter 9 Order, Disorder, and Development Chapter 10 The Limits to Dictatorship Chapter 11 A Kind of Peace Part 12 III A Political Police Performance Chapter 13 Constabulary of Campesinos and Artisans Chapter 14 The President's Police Chapter 15 It's the Image That Counts Part 16 IV Demons of Revolution Unleashed Chapter 17 The Rollercoaster Called Capitalism Chapter 18 Unraveling the Old Regime Chapter 19 Disorder in Search of Order

About the author

Paul Vanderwood is professor of Mexican history at San Diego State University.

Product details

• Authors: Paul J. Vanderwood, Vanderwood Paul J.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1992
• EAN: 9780842024396
• ISBN: 978-0-8420-2439-6
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 460 g
• Series: Latin American Silhouettes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Mexico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Politics and government, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, C 1700 To C 1800