...Samuel A. McReynolds The Ambivalent Revolution: Forging State and Nation in Chiapas, 1910–1945 . Stephen E. Lewis . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 BookReviews tations and anecdotes by Leo Tolstoy and T. E. Lawrence worked for their intended purposes. They seemed...

...Mark Becker To See with Two Eyes: Peasant Activism & Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico . Shannan L. Mattiace . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews To See With Two Eyes: Peasant Activism & Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico. By Shannan L. Mattiace...

...Marc Becker Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas . Aaron Bobrow-Strain . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2009 Book Reviews do so efficientlybecause specialization allows them to simplifymanagement and optimize capital investment bymaximizing...

... at the end of the nineteenth century. The frontier fixation did not prevent Book Reviews 303 the arrival of Guatemalan workers or the indenturing of indigenous inhabitants from elsewhere in Chiapas in order to provide coffee estate labor. As the author ably shows, the definition of boundaries did not prevent...

...Rebecca Scofield Book Reviews 303 the arrival of Guatemalan workers or the indenturing of indigenous inhabitants from elsewhere in Chiapas in order to provide coffee estate labor. As the author ably shows, the definition of boundaries did not prevent the movement of people or goods between...

..., ISBN 0-89680-247-7. Maria Elena Martinez-Torres's wide-ranging and perceptive study of small scale coffee cultivation in theMexican state of Chiapas since the 1970s is a fine introduction to one area of theworld coffee economy, which has right fully received a great deal of attention. It is a case...

.... Albuquerque: UniversityofNew Mexico Press,2005. 283 pp., $24.95,paperback, ISBN 0-8263-3601-9. On January 1, 1994, with Mexico's entry intoNAFTA, the impoverished southern state of Chiapas exploded into violence. An indigenous group of rebels-the Zapatistas-invoked the name of the revolutionary agrarian hero...

... in Chiapas. For any in volved in either the scholarship of Mexican education or the history of Chiapas, this book is a must. The second story, that of an ambivalent revolution, is less successful. It fails on three levels. First, it isnot effectively set in the context of literature on comparative...

... employment. One of Sifuentez s more interesting contributions is his tracking of braceros from their origins in Mexico, such as Juan Contreras, whom he follows from the Mexican state of Chiapas through his migratory patterns north. Next, the author chronicles the arrival of Tejano migrants in the region...

... and perceptive study of small scale coffee cultivation in theMexican state of Chiapas since the 1970s is a fine introduction to one area of theworld coffee economy, which has right fully received a great deal of attention. It is a case study of what anthro pologist Karl Polanyi called "the double movement...

.... It was my fourth visit to the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, and I thought I had a fairly clear understanding of what was happening there.The trip,however, chal lenged much ofwhat I thought I knew. Bobrow-Strain explores many of the complicated themes that I encoun tered in themunicipality ofChilon...

..., however, provides a rich contribution to a quickly growing literature on the neo-Zapatistas. It is best read in conjunction with other excellent works such as Neil Har vey, The Chiapas Rebellion; Teresa Ortiz, Never again a World without Us; Shannan Mattiace, To See With Two Eyes; and Thomas Olesen...

... from the Mexican state of Chiapas through his migratory patterns north. Next, the author chronicles the arrival of Tejano migrants in the region, noting their citizenship and English-language skills (both of which emboldened them to attack labor and racial oppression head on), their adaptation to year...

... with hacienda owners and managers (the literature on debt peonage is especially dense) see, for example, Sarah Washbrook, Enganche and Exports in Chiapas, Mexico: A Comparison of Plantation Labour in the Districts of Soconusco and Palenque, The Origins of Mexico s Banco Nacional de Crédito Ejidal 307 1876 1911...

...." University of Illinois, Chicago (USA), 2004. Laguna, Marcela. "Impacto de la Polftica de Equalidad de Genero del ACNUR en la Poblacion Refugiada Guatemalteca en el Estado de Chiapas (1996-1999 [The Political Impact of Gender Equality of ACNUR in the Guatemalan Refugee Population in the State of Chia? pas...

... farmworkers who have migrated primarily from the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Michoacán, Guerrero, and Chiapas, and who make up as much as 25 percent of California s farmworkers.140 The continued advocacy of CRLA on issues critical to the livelihoods of farmworkers and other rural Californians speaks not just...