The Gavilleros of the East

Social Banditry as Political Practice in the Dominican Sugar Region, 1900-1924

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4300946
AutoresJulie Franks (0000-0001-6329-2301, autor correspondente)
Ano1995
Volume8
Fascículo2
Páginas158-181
Data de publicação1995-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-6443.1995.tb00085.x
OpenAlexW2080420369
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8

This essay explores 'social banditry' as a form of political practice in relation to distinct regimes of power; regional, national, and imperialist. The eastern region of the Dominican Republic experienced a rapid rise of land values and conversion of peasant smallholdings into sugar cane lields at the start of the twentieth century. Roving bands of 'outlaws' called 'gavilleros' appeared almost immediately, and came under increasing, and different, scrutiny during the years 1916-1924, when United States Marines occupied the Republic. This essay considers the political and social dimensions of gavillero conduct as it was transformed-and transformed itself-during the first quarter of the twentieth century

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