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On brigandage with special reference to peasant mobilization

Auteurs

  • Blok,Anton

Trefwoorden:

Mobilization, Peasant, Social bandits

Samenvatting

E. J. Hobsbawm (Primitive rebels. Studies in archaic forms of social movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, Manchester, England: 1959) introduced a universal of 'social banditry' as a primitive form of peasant organized protest against oppressors. His romanticized picture viewed social bandits as reformers not revolutionaries, without sufficiently noting the groups upon whom these social bandits actually prey. Hobsbawm's model fails by insistence that new data be interpreted only through his original theory. Through analysis of a Sicilian context, it is shown that: (1) bandits often terrorized those of their own sc, (2) they often helped suppress peasants through physical violence and intimidation, and (3) they have had key roles in effectively demobilizing peasant protest. Focus is on the relationships between lords, peasants, and bandits. T. Babitsky.

Biografie auteur

Blok,Anton

Gepubliceerd

1971-03-01

Nummer

Sectie

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