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City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience
Santiago de Guatemala was the colonial capital and most important urban center of Spanish Central America from its establishment in 1541 until the ear...
Pedro de Alvarado and the Conquest of Guatemala, 1520–1541
The conquest of Guatemala was brutal, prolonged and complex, fraught with intrigue and deception, and not at all clear-cut. Yet views persist of it as...
A Guide To The Population History Of Spanish Central America, 1500-1821
In their introductory chapter, Lovell and Lutz examine contact-period demography, native survival and demise, race mixture, and ethnic composition. Th...
Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala
Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange l...