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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...
Relativism, Thomism, and Philosophy
"Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre presents an intellectual history history and defense of this towering figure in contemporary American p...
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...
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The Sociodemographic History of a Spanish American Colonial City
The Gustavus A. Eisen Collection, 1902
Informative and beautifully illustrated.... It is both a detailed anthropological study, which delves into aspects of Mayan culture and examines histo...
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 lan...
Costume and Life in the 19th Century