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Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, portraits, maps. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 560.
The life of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was the stuff that legends are made of. Born and raised in a tiny village in the small south-central state of Morelos, he led an uprising in 1911 - one strand of the larger Mexican Revolution - against the regime of longtime president Porfirio Diaz. He fought not to fulfill personal ambitions but for the campesinos of Morelos, whose rights were being systematically ignored in Don Porfirio's courts.
Expanding haciendas had been appropriating land and water for centuries in the state, but as the 20th century began things were becoming desperate. It ... Read more
The life of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was the stuff that legends are made of. Born and raised in a tiny village in the small south-central state of Morelos, he led an uprising in 1911 - one strand of the larger Mexican Revolution - against the regime of longtime president Porfirio Diaz. He fought not to fulfill personal ambitions but for the campesinos of Morelos, whose rights were being systematically ignored in Don Porfirio's courts.
Expanding haciendas had been appropriating land and water for centuries in the state, but as the 20th century began things were becoming desperate. It ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826316202
SKU
V9780826316202
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