El periquillo sarniento : banditry as the non plus ultra
Facundo : banditry and the state as nomadic war machine
El chacho : banditry and allegories of legitimation
O cabelleira : cangaceiros, sacarocracy, and the invention of a national tradition
El zarco : banditry and foundational allegories for the nation-state
Criminology : banditry as the wound of history
Astucia : banditry and insurgent utopia
Zárate : banditry, nation, and the experience of the limits
Martín Fierro : banditry and the frontiers of the voice
Juan Moreira : the gaucho malo as unpopular hero
Alma gaucha : the gaucho outlaw and the leviathan
Los bandidos de Ría Frío : banditry, the criminal state, and the critique of Porfirian illusions
Os sertões : original banditry and the crimes of nations
La guerra gaucha : bandit and founding father in the epic of the nation-state
Los de abajo : the feast, the bandit gang, the bola (revolution and its metaphors)
Cesarismo democrático : banditry and the necessary gendarme (the shadow of the Caudillo I)
Doña Bárbara : banditry and the illusions of modernity (the shadow of the Caudillo II).