Social Bandits
The concept of the “social” bandit was introduced by the late historian, Eric Hobsbawm, to describe “noble robbers” or outlaw heroes who resist oppressions visited on the poor and weak. The English Robin Hood is perhaps the best-known example, but such figures appear in folk traditions around the wo...
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John Wiley & Sons
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3754 |