The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten century." This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish Central America. The colonial Spanish society of the sixteenth century was very different from that described in the eighteenth century. What happened in the Latin American colonies between the first conquests, the seizure of long-accumulated Indian wealth, the first silver booms, ...
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The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten century." This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish Central America. The colonial Spanish society of the sixteenth century was very different from that described in the eighteenth century. What happened in the Latin American colonies between the first conquests, the seizure of long-accumulated Indian wealth, the first silver booms, and the period of modern raw material supply? How did Latin America move from one stage to the other? What were these intermediate economic stages, and what effect did they have on the peoples living in Latin America? These questions continue to resonate in Latin American studies today, making this updated edition of Murdo J. MacLeod's original work more relevant than ever. Colonial Central America was a large, populous, and always strategically significant stretch of land. With the Yucat???n, it was home of the Maya, one of the great pre-Columbian cultures. MacLeod examines the long-term process it underwent of relative prosperity, depression, and then recovery, citing comparative sources on Europe to describe Central America's great economic, demographic, and social cycles. With an updated historiographical and bibliographical introduction, this fascinating study should appeal to historians, anthropologists, and all who are interested in the colonial experience of Latin America.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1050grams, ISBN: 0520021371.
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Very Good. Size: 6x1x9; 2008 University of Texas Press, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (Austin, Texas), 6 x 9 inches tall x 1 1/2 inches thick paperbound in color pictorial covers, illustrated with black-and-white maps, lx, 554 pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a near fine copy-clean, bright and unmarked. ~S~ [3.0P] Now with an updated historiographical and bibliographical introduction-a sweeping history of the middle centuries of Spain's colonial enterprise in Central America. The seventeenth century has been characterized as 'Latin America's forgotten century. ' This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish Central America. The colonial Spanish society of the sixteenth century was very different from that described in the eighteenth century. What happened in the Latin American colonies between the first conquests, the seizure of long-accumulated Indian wealth, the first silver booms, and the period of modern raw material supply? How did Latin America move from one stage to the other? What were these intermediate economic stages, and what effect did they have on the peoples living in Latin America? These questions continue to resonate in Latin American studies today, making this updated edition of Murdo J. MacLeod's original work more relevant than ever. Contents: A new introduction: More than three decades of writing on Spanish Central America, 1973-2006 / Murdo J. MacLeod; 1. The Central American background and conquest; 2. Slaves and silver: the first experts; 3. Ephemeral hopes; 4. Soconusco, a hint of things to come; 5. The cacao boom; 6. From conquest to the emergence of order and pattern; 7. The two republics, Indians and Spaniards, in the age of Encomienda; 8. Attempts to revive declining industries; 9. The search for new industries and trades; 10. Indigo, 1580-1720: possibilites and frustrations; 11. The effects of the crisis on local populations and economy; 12. The aftermath of a boom: seventeenth-century cacao; 13. Honduran mining: the emergence of a local industry and culture; 14. External trades in hte depth of the depression; 15. The currency crisis; 16. Men and land in mid-century: contraction and isolation; 17. The two republics in the years of depression; 18. Costa Rican cacao; 19. Signs of strain and change (c. 1685-1720); 20. The growth of a new solution: the rise of smuggling.