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• ISBN: 093502879X
• ISBN: 9780935028799
• Physical Description: xviii, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
• Edition: Rev. ed.
• Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : Food First Books, ©1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-217) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Chiapas and Mexico -- The Legacy of Conquest -- Export Enclaves and National Consolidation -- Mexico's Revolution -- Agrarian Reform -- Eastern Chiapas: Land -- Colonizing Eastern Chiapas -- Agrarian Reform and Conflict -- Eastern Chiapas: The Building of Social Movements -- Protestant Evangelization -- Catholic Responses -- Peasant Organizations -- Challenges to the Government -- Disillusionment and Disagreement -- The Growth of the Guerrilla Movement -- Oil and the Crisis in Mexican Agriculture -- Crisis in Agriculture -- Energy Development in Chiapas -- Restructuring Peasant Agriculture -- The Toll of Restructuring on Lives and Communities -- Land and the Changing Economy -- Gender and Generation Gaps -- The Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor -- Leaders Who No Longer Need Followers -- Exclusion: The New Politics -- "New Law," "New Politics" -- Control of Money -- Tradition Versus Literacy and Law -- Divided Solidarity -- Transitions and Prospects -- Prospects -- Epilogue: The New Indigenous Movement -- The New Zapatismo -- The Double-Edged Sword of Neoliberalism -- Militarization and Containment -- Circumventing Containment Through Global Networking -- Co-optation or Constructive Change?

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Peasants > Mexico > Chiapas.
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Chiapas (Mexico) > Rural conditions.
Chiapas (Mexico) > Economic conditions.
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