Cowboys and Caudillos: Frontier Ideology of the Americas

Author/Contributor(s):	Sullivan, Tom R
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Date:	01/01/1990
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.