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...John Womack Jr. '59, assistant professor of History and a member of the committee, said, "We've come a long way from mid-December. Back then, we were in a very tense situation between students and Faculty. Nobody is pressing demands or negotiating...
...agreed on one thing," Womack continued. "We have no intention of relaxing any departmental standards for anybody. Right now, we're trying to broaden the range of alternatives by which students can meet those standards," he added...
ZAPATA AND THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION by John Womack Jr. 435 pages. Knopf...
...John Womack Jr.'s social history of the Mexican Revolution is scholarly, engrossing and highly sympathetic to Zapata. A Harvard professor of Latin American history, Womack, 31, clearly shows that Zapata's fidelity and incorruptibility were deeply rooted in the bitter struggle of Morelos farmers to guard their land titles and water rights. Their enemies were the rich landowners constantly seeking to add acreage to their already vast haciendas...
Staying True. When the Constitutionalist Venustiano Carranza and his "new, nationalist entrepreneurs" became powerful in 1914, Zapata met his match in tenacity and deadly seriousness. The Carrancistas plundered, says Womack, "not for fun but on business." Zapata recognized that Carranza posed a serious threat to the Plan de Ayala. Even the thought of meeting Carranza's envoys filled Zapata with dread...