Modernity at gunpoint : firearms, politics, and culture in Mexico and Central America / Sophie Esch.
Esch, Sophie, author.
2018
F1438 .E834 2018
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Title Modernity at gunpoint : firearms, politics, and culture in Mexico and Central America / Sophie Esch.
Author Esch, Sophie, author.
ISBN 9780822965381
9780822986133 (e-book)
Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Copyright 2018
Language English
Description 1 online resource (284 pages).
Call Number F1438 .E834 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 355.009728
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Available in Other Form Modernity at gunpoint : firearms, politics, and culture in Mexico and Central America.
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Introduction: Firearms as symbols of insurgency and modernity
Carbines and cartridge belts : affirming one's presence
Pistols and paredon : violent politics of affect and modernity
Riddled by bullets : weaponry, militancy, and the people in arms as desire and enigma
Songs of guerrilla warfare and enchatment : popularizing and legitimizing armed struggle
Hidden arsenals : demobilized combatants and the postwar state of mind
Golden AK-47s and weapon displays : the props of the drug war
Epilogue: The long shadow of the rifle.

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