Basta!: Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas

by Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello and George A. Collier

Book Overview

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 rebellion's 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 Mexico's 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. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093502879X
• ISBN13: 9780935028799
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Food First Books
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

different but very interesting angle on the zapatistas

The book has a very different focus on the Zapatista movementthan most others out there. It doesn't look at it from a presenttime point of view and what do the Zapatistas mean, what do theywant, how do they work....It looks simply at the history of the indigenous people of Chiapasand their relationship with the mexican governement and tries tomake 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

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

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.