Cowboys and Caudillos: Frontier Ideology of the Americas
by Tom R. Sullivan
University of Wisconsin Press, 1990
Cloth: 978-0-87972-483-2 | Paper: 978-0-87972-484-9
Library of Congress Classification PS374.F73S86 1990
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.93352636
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.
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