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| | Basta!: Land And The Zapatista Rebellion In Chiapas |  | Authors: George A. Collier, Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello
Publisher: Food First
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 184987
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 281
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0935028978
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.317275
EAN: 9780935028973
ASIN: 0935028978
Publication Date: July 2005
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Product Description
Hoy decimos basta! Today we say, enough! On January 1, 1994, in the impoverished state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, the Zapatista rebellion shot into the international spotlight. In this fully revised third edition of their classic study of the rebellions roots, George Collier and Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello paint a vivid picture of the historical struggle for land faced by the Maya Indians, who are among Mexicos poorest people. Examining the roles played by Catholic and Protestant clergy, revolutionary and peasant movements, the oil boom and the debt crisis, NAFTA and the free trade era, and finally the growing global justice movement, the authors provide a rich context for understanding the uprising and the subsequent history of the Zapatistas and rural Chiapas, up to the present day.
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 It's the Population! November 16, 2005
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is Hamlet without the Prince. The first and most important thing to understand about Chiapas is the tremendous increase in population it has had in the last fifty years. Yet this book never comes to grips with the question of how people are to live today when they are many times more numerous than fifty years ago, and at that time they barely eked out a living. It's too bad that the INI didn't start out with birth control measures when it started work over 50 years ago. If Collier had had a co-author skilled in demography and economics to supplement his own first hand knowledge of the last fifty years in the Chiapas highlands, this could have been a very rewarding book. But as it stands, particularly in the later chapters, there is too much "anti-globalony".
 different but very interesting angle on the zapatistas February 15, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book has a very different focus on the Zapatista movement
than most others out there. It doesn't look at it from a present
time point of view and what do the Zapatistas mean, what do they
want, how do they work....It looks simply at the history of the indigenous people of Chiapas
and their relationship with the mexican governement and tries to
make sense and explain why it is that the zapatista rebellion happened in Chiapas. Very interesting and well written
Most in depth, gives the most background info of chiapas October 2, 1998
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
This book is amazing, definetely one of the best out there. Dont be fooled by its cheap price, its well worth three times that amount if youre an avid chiapas rebel. For those of you looking for your first Chiapas book, this is definetely the one to choose.
Most objective examination of the 1994 Chiapas peasant revol February 6, 1998
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
The Zapatista revolution has been the subject of many books, articles, and opinions, but this book covers the subject in the most objective and thorough journalistic manner.
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