A biography of the Mexican patriot who organized and led his rural community in resistance to the central government.

Prologue: a people chooses a leader -- President Diaz elects a governor -- Planters progress -- Villagers join Madero -- Army campaigns -- Official revolutionaries perform -- Refugees win a war -- Countrymen disavow the costituitionalists -- Pueblos carry out a revolution -- Guerrilleros survive -- Resistance reforms -- Zapatistas inherit Morelos -- Epilogue: a people keeps faith -- Appendix A: mayor plantations in Morelos, 1908-1909 -- Appendix B: plan de Ayala -- Appendix C: Agrarian law -- Bibliographical note -- Index.