How Long to Read Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion

How Long Does it Take to Read Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion by Nicholas P. Higgins

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

To many observers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mexico appeared to be a modern nation-state at last assuming an international role through its participation in NAFTA and the OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development). Then came the Zapatista revolt on New Year's Day 1994. Wearing ski masks and demanding not power but a new understanding of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, Subcomandante Marcos and his followers launched what may be the first "post" or "counter" modern revolution, one that challenges the very concept of the modern nation-state and its vision of a fully assimilated citizenry. This book offers a new way of understanding the Zapatista conflict as a counteraction to the forces of modernity and globalization that have rendered indigenous peoples virtually invisible throughout the world. Placing the conflict within a broad sociopolitical and historical context, Nicholas Higgins traces the relations between Maya Indians and the Mexican state from the conquest to the present—which reveals a centuries-long contest over the Maya people's identity and place within Mexico. His incisive analysis of this contest clearly explains how the notions of "modernity" and even of "the state" require the assimilation of indigenous peoples. With this understanding, Higgins argues, the Zapatista uprising becomes neither surprising nor unpredictable, but rather the inevitable outcome of a modernizing program that suppressed the identity and aspirations of the Maya peoples.

How long is Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion?

Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion by Nicholas P. Higgins is 275 pages long, and a total of 70,125 words.

This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 23 minutes to read Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion aloud.

What Reading Level is Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion?

Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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