Mexico Unconquered
Subtitle: Chronicles of Power and Revolt
By: John Gibler.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780872864931
Subjects: Power (Social sciences) -- Mexico; Social conflict -- Mexico; Government, Resistance to -- Mexico; Political stability -- Mexico; Mexico -- Social conditions; Mexico -- Politics and government
Description: From the Publisher: Mexico Unconquered is an evocative report on the powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the rebel underdogs who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up. Mexico Unconquered probes the overwhelming divisions in contemporary Mexico, home to the world's richest man, Carlos Slim, and to destitute millions. John Gibler weaves narrative journalism with lyrical descriptions, combining the journalist's trade of walking the streets and the philosopher's task of drawing out the tremendous implications of the seemingly mundane.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : a nation divided; title: Historical continuity of conquest and revolt; title: The rule of law; title: The gulf; title: The heist; title: "Ungovernability"; title: The indigenous present; title: Notes on empire and revolt.