Intimate EnemiesIntimate Enemies is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, crucial but almost entirely unexamined actors in the states violent history. Scholarly discussion of agrarian politics has typically cast landed elites as bad guys with predetermined interests and obvious motives. Aaron Bobrow Strain takes the landowners of Chiapas seriously, asking why coffee planters and cattle ranchers with a long and