From Campesino to Worker. Review of Paul Hart's <em>Bitter Harvest: The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840- 1910</em> (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005)

Authors

  • Paul Vanderwood San Diego State University

Keywords:

Latin American History, Latin American Politics, Capitalism, Zapatism

Abstract

In his search for origins of the Zapatista rebellion of 1910, Paul Hart traces a century of agrarian transformation in the Mexican State of Morelos. It is, fundamentally, the painful story of the slow but inexorable privatization of common lands to  commercial agriculture, the transition of self-sufficient (if poor and suffering) peasants into independent workers for capitalistic enterprise.

Author Biography

Paul Vanderwood, San Diego State University

Paul J. Vanderwood es Profesor Emérito en San Diego State University. Es autor de varios libros, incluyendo Disorder and Progress: Bandits, Police, and Mexican Development (University of Nebraska Press, 1981; 2da. edición, Scholarly  Resources, 1992), Border Fury: A Picture Postcard Account  of the Mexican Revolution and U.S. War Preparedness, 1910–1917 (University of New Mexico  Press,  1988); The Power of God Against the Guns of Government: Religious Upheaval in Mexico at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century (Stanford University Press, 1998), y Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint (Duke University Press, 2004). Actualmente trabaja en una historia de Agua Caliente (Tijuana) durante la era de la prohibición y su conversión en un enclave del juego y el turismo de diversión.

Published

2007-02-01

How to Cite

Vanderwood, P. (2007). From Campesino to Worker. Review of Paul Hart’s <em>Bitter Harvest: The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840- 1910</em> (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005). A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 4(3), 214–218. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/324

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