Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader

Publisher Marketing: 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. Publisher Marketing: 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. Review Citations:

Library Journal 04/01/1999 pg. 110 (EAN 9781565844520, Paperback)

Library Journal 05/01/1999 pg. 95 (EAN 9781565844520, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Booklist 05/15/1999 pg. 1647 (EAN 9781565844520, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Womack, John, Jr Womack is a professor of history at Harvard University.