Lords of the Mountain: Social Banditry and Peasant Protest in Cuba, 1878-1918

Lords of the Mountain is a colorful narrative that views how Cuba’s violent history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century was also a history of economic violence. From the 1870s, the expanding sugar industry began to swallow up rural communities and destroy the traditional land tenure system, as the great sugar estates-the \u201clatifundia\u201d dominated the economy. Perez chronicles the popular resistance to these powerful landholders, and the violent uprisings and banditry propagated against them.