!Zapata Lives! Histories and Cultural Politics in Southern Mexico

From: Latin American Politics and Society | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Stephen, Lynn. !Zapata Lives! Histories and Cultural Politics in Southern Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Photographs, illustrations, maps, acronyms, tables, bibliography, index, 445 pp.; hardcover $60, paperback $24.95.

In April 1919, Mexican peasant revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was ambushed and killed by troops loyal to President Venustiano Carranza. Arguably, the "martyr of Chinameca" has been more powerful in death than he was in life. Carranza's successor and former righthand man, Alvaro Obregon, became president in 1920 and began remaking the image of Zapata, ...

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