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Title: HEROES ON HORSEBACK
A LIFE AND TIMES OF THE LAST GAUCHO CAUDILLOS
By: John Charles Chasteen
Format: Paperback

List price: £25.95


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ISBN 10: 0826315984
ISBN 13: 9780826315984
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
Pub. date: 1 June, 1995
Pages: 241
Description: A sweeping narrative of two 19th century charismatic leaders and their powerful armies on the Brazil/Uruguay border.
Synopsis: Heroes on Horseback takes a new look at a topic that will not go away: the charismatic leadership known as caudillismo that has characterized so much of South American history. Why were there so many Spanish American caudillos and so few in Brazil? Where did caudillos get their power? Answers emerge in John Charles Chasteen's account of the short careers of two back-country caudillos, Gumercindo and Aparicio Saravia, sons of a Brazilian immigrant family in northern Uruguay. Their story is set in the borderlands where Brazil and Spanish America met and mingled in the nineteenth century. Rather by accident, they became the last of the gaucho caudillos when, in the 1890s, they led hopeless revolts of mounted lancers against modern armies equipped with Mausers and Krupp artillery.
Illustrations: maps
Publication: US
Imprint: University of New Mexico Press
Returns: Returnable
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