Cover of The Zapatista Reader

The Zapatista Reader

This collection brings together essays, interviews, articles and letters about the revolutionary conflict in Chiapas, a state in southern Mexico. Its contents come from the movement itself and from writers who have followed it, so readers hear the rebels' own voices alongside outside commentary. Together the material traces the conflict and the political and social questions behind it. It offers a broad, source-based route into the subject for readers who want the documents themselves rather than a single author's summary.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 503 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The Zapatista Reader? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Zapatista Reader. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. ¡Ya Basta!: Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising Shares Mexico, Latin America, nonfiction
  2. Basta!: Land And The Zapatista Rebellion In Chiapas Shares Latin America, Mexico, nonfiction
  3. The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics Shares Mexico, Latin America, history
  4. Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy Shares Mexico, Latin America, nonfiction

“People who read The Zapatista Reader tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America
  2. Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
  3. 68
  4. Modern Latin America

“If you want more of the same (history about revolution), start with these.”

  1. Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader
  2. Shadows of Tender Fury
  3. Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century
  4. Mexico: Democracy Interrupted

“If it was the Mexico that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Free onlineFree Insurgent Mexico
  2. The Life and Times of Mexico
  3. Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans
  4. Bordering on Chaos: Mexico's Roller-Coaster Journey Toward Prosperity

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. The American History Cookbook
  2. We Are Everywhere: A Historical Sourcebook of Gay and Lesbian Politics
  3. The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, Volume 2
  4. Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer