Subcommander Marcos : the man and the mask / Nick Henck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henck, Nick, 1971-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marcos, subcomandante.

Marcos.

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico).

Guerrillas--Mexico--Chiapas--Biography.

Guerrillas.

Revolutionaries--Mexico--Chiapas--Biography.

Revolutionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (530 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A biography of Mexican guerilla leader (in Chiapas) Subcommander Marcos that synthesizes his life, his career, and his influence. The first such study in English.

Contents:

Rafael

Birth and Family

School Years

High School College

UNAM

The Graduate

Marcos the Guerrilla

Chiapas

Guerrilla Inception

The Wilderness Years

First Contact

Promotion and Expansion

A Jungle Wedding

An Election, Exponential Growth, and a Rift

Bust and Boom

Fallout

From the People's Guerrilla to a Guerrilla People

Indigenous Indignation

An Internal Coup and the Road to War

Marcos the Star Spokesman

The Uprising

"Waging a Masterful Media War"

A Cease-Fire

The Cult of Marcos

Peace Talks

Courting Civil Society

The Elections and Their Aftermath

Marcos Unmasked and Rafael Revealed

Nationalizing and Internationalizing the Struggle

A March and a Massacre

Speedy Gonzalez Breaks the Silence

A Consulta, a Story, and a Strike

A Change of Government

The Zapatour

Marcos Today.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-486) and index.

ISBN:

9786613023193

9781283023191

1283023199

9780822389729

082238972X

OCLC:

607770681