Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565844521 ISBN 13: 9781565844520

Publisher: The New Press, 1999

Synopsis

John Womack examines the conflict in Chiapas in light of 500 years of struggle and uneasy accomodation between the region's Maya population and the Spanish conquerors and ladino landowners. Rebellion in Chiapas opens with a major new essay examining the Zapatista revolt and chronicling the attempts at a negotiated peace. It goes on to reveal the roots of the rebellion through a range of primary source materials and other key documents from the time of the conquest through the present.

About this title

Synopsis:

Once again, the rebellion in Chiapas has made headlines with revelations of harsh governmental repression against Indian villagers sympathetic to the five-year-old uprising of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN). In this text, an American scholar of Mexico looks not only at the conflict of the end of the 1990s but at 500 years of struggle and uneasy accommodation between Chiapas's primarily Maya population and the Spanish conquerors and criollo landowners. The text opens with a new essay by John Womack Jr, examining the Zapatista revolt and chronicling the attempts at a negotiated peace. It goes on to reveal the roots of the rebellion through a range of primary source materials and other documents, mostly newly translated, and all placed in context by the author.

About the Author:

John Womack, Jr. is a historian of Latin America. In 2009 he retired from his position as the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics at Harvard University. He is the author of "Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader" (The New Press).

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1565844521
• ISBN 13: 9781565844520
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372
• Editor: Womack Jr. John