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Author | : Edward Bastien |
Publisher | : Texas Western Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"Father Edward Bastien was known in each of his South Texas parishes as a priest who would happily join in his parishioners' latest plumbing or electrical battles at home at the same time that he worked toward their spiritual well-being at church. But only when he arrived in the poor border town of Zapata, soon to be flooded by the building of the U.S.-Mexico Falcon Dam, did his tenacious efforts to help his parishioners fight the battle of their lives earn him the honorary moniker of the Fighting Father of Zapata." "Maria Rollin knew Father Bastien when she was a child. He gave her family a copy of his Zapata letters interspersed with his personal musings and anecdotes of the events of that time. Later Rollin realized that this man's manuscript is a humorous yet powerful personal account of bureaucracy gone amok, of poor South Texans forced into a diaspora, and of a priest who was willing to fight for the temporal as well as the spiritual needs of those who had no voice. This is his story."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Edward Bastien |
Publisher | : Texas Western Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780874042856 |
"Father Edward Bastien was known in each of his South Texas parishes as a priest who would happily join in his parishioners' latest plumbing or electrical battles at home at the same time that he worked toward their spiritual well-being at church. But only when he arrived in the poor border town of Zapata, soon to be flooded by the building of the U.S.-Mexico Falcon Dam, did his tenacious efforts to help his parishioners fight the battle of their lives earn him the honorary moniker of the Fighting Father of Zapata." "Maria Rollin knew Father Bastien when she was a child. He gave her family a copy of his Zapata letters interspersed with his personal musings and anecdotes of the events of that time. Later Rollin realized that this man's manuscript is a humorous yet powerful personal account of bureaucracy gone amok, of poor South Texans forced into a diaspora, and of a priest who was willing to fight for the temporal as well as the spiritual needs of those who had no voice. This is his story."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : John Womack |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2011-07-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307803325 |
This essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution; he formed and commanded an important revolutionary force during this conflict. Womack focuses attention on Zapata's activities and his home state of Morelos during the Revolution. Zapata quickly rose from his position as a peasant leader in a village seeking agrarian reform. Zapata's dedication to the cause of land rights made him a hero to the people. Womack describes the contributing factors and conditions preceding the Mexican Revolution, creating a narrative that examines political and agrarian transformations on local and national levels.
Author | : Harry H. Dunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1934 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Virgil N. Lott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Zapata County |
ISBN | : |
"Although the building of Falcon Dam will allow this portion of the Magic Valley to blossom in its deserved glory, it will, nevertheless, submerge Zapata, its neighboring villages, and historical landmarks." Dust jacket.
Author | : Roger Parkinson |
Publisher | : Scarborough House |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Recounts the life and exploits of the legendary leader of the farmers of South Mexico in their 1910-1919 revolution, viewing Zapara as a highly skilled and committed guerilla leader.
Author | : R. Conrad Stein |
Publisher | : Morgan Reynolds Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-04-28 |
Genre | : Generals |
ISBN | : 9781599351636 |
The Mexican Revolution was a brutal civil war fought between 1910 and 1920. The war pitted the rich against the poor and the landless against the landowners. During ten years of fighting some 1 million and perhaps as many as 2 million people were killed. The Revolution left deep scars in the Mexican soul, but it gave the people their greatest hero in modern times: Emiliano Zapata. A peasant leader, Zapata fought for the rights of his people and never sought personal gain. He led the landless farmers of southern Mexico in their struggle against powerful landowners. The battle cry of Zapata's army was simple and forceful "Land and Liberty!" Zapata was killed late in the war. But decades after his death the peasants of the south, who believed Zapata to be immortal, claimed they still saw him. Around their huts the impoverished farmers would gather and talk in hushed tones "Yes, I saw him last night. I saw our Emiliano. He was riding alone." Book jacket.
Author | : Samuel Brunk |
Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2016-04-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0826325130 |
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 long-time president Porfirio Díaz. 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 twentieth century began things were becoming desperate. It was not long before Díaz fell. But Zapata then discovered that other national leaders--Francisco Madero, Victoriano Huerta, and Venustiano Carranza--would not put things right, and so he fought them too. He fought for nearly a decade until, in 1919, he was gunned down in an ambush at the hacienda Chinameca. In this new political biography of Zapata, Brunk, noted journalist and scholar, shows us Zapata the leader as opposed to Zapata the archetypal peasant revolutionary. In previous writings on Zapata, the movement is covered and Zapata the man gets lost in the shuffle. Brunk clearly demonstrates that Zapata's choices and actions did indeed have an historical impact.
Author | : Peter E. Newell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1982-07-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780900384226 |
Author | : Robert Paul Millon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780717802241 |
Study of the origins of zapatas agrarian reform movement and political problems in Mexico - covers historical and political aspects, nationalist ideology, the role of rural workers in labour movements and social movements, the political and economic structures, social change, etc. Biography zapata e.