WEEK 15: Revolution

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REQUIRED
  • Peter Winn, Ch. 13, "Making Revolution," Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 492-549.

  • Margaret Cragan and Peter Smith, "The State of Revolution in the Americas," in Alfred Stepan, ed., The Americas: New Interpretative Essays (New York: Oxford University Press), p. 79-102.

  • Leslie E. Anderson, The Political Ecology of the Modern Peasant: Calculation and Community (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994): xiii-61, 119-73.
RECOMMENDED
  • John A. Booth, "The Socioeconomic and Political Roots of National Revolts in Central America," Latin American Research Review, 1991, 26 (1):33-73.

  • Neil Harvey, The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998): 8-245.

  • Andres Oppenheimer, Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico's Road to Prosperity (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1996): 37-82, 235-262.

  • Jan Rus, "The 'Comunidad Revolucionaria Institucional,'" in Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent, eds., Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Latin America (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), p. 265-300.

  • George Collier, Basta: Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas (Oakland, CA: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1994): 1-154.

  • Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993).

 

Subcomandante Marcos, Ernesto Che Guevara, and the corpse of Che Guevara surrounded by his captors in the film El Dia Que Me Quieras (The Day You'll Love Me).

 

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