num_pages: 291
description: Between 1910 and 1919, Morelos, Mexico, was home to a bloodyagrarian revolution that saw government troops burn villages, citiesstand abandoned, and two of every five people either flee the fighting ordie in it. The conflict came in response to an intense economictransformation that changed the region's peasant economy into the hubof the Mexican sugar industry during the nineteenth century. Byfocusing on the creation of the rural working class in Morelos, 'BitterHarvest' argues that developments there reflected a broader patternshared with other parts of Mexico that erupted in revolution.
language: English
title: Bitter Harvest: The Social Transformation of Morelos, Mexico, and the Origins of the Zapatista Revolution, 1840-1910
publisher: University of New Mexico Press