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Guatemala in the Spanish Colonial Period

Author : Oakah L. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806126036
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Guatemala in the Spanish Colonial Period written by Oakah L. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive narrative history of Guatemala, the cultural and political heart of colonial Central America, focuses on the three centuries from the arrival of the conquistador Pedro de Alvarado in 1524 to the modern nation's declaration of independence in 1821. Distinguished historian Oakah L. Jones, Jr., examines both chronologically and topically the geography and the indigenous people of the region; Spain's conquest and initial colonization from 1524 to about 1540; government and administration under the Habsburgs and the Bourbons; the Roman Catholic Church; Spanish-Indian relations and labor practices; land, towns, and the economy; the colonial society and culture; and the effects of such natural disasters as earthquakes and of Spain's defenses of the colony and Kingdom of Guatemala. The author's research both in primary documents located in Spain, Guatemala, and the United States and in published monographs in Spanish and English makes this general history useful both to scholars and to general readers, who will also value its chronology of major events and glossary of terms. Because Guatemala's role was pivotal within the Kingdom of Guatemala (which included present-day Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica), this history is an excellent introduction to the effects of Spanish rule in Central America. Guatemala in the colonial period was a dynamic political entity, and Spain left important, enduring legacies in today's modern republic.

Memories of Conquest

Author : Laura E. Matthew
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807882585
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Memories of Conquest written by Laura E. Matthew and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their involvement in Spain's New World empire? Laura Matthew's study of Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala--the first study to focus on a single allied colony over the entire colonial period--places the Nahua, Zapotec, and Mixtec conquistadors of Guatemala and their descendants within a deeply Mesoamerican historical context. Drawing on archives, ethnography, and colonial Mesoamerican maps, Matthew argues that the conquest cannot be fully understood without considering how these Indian conquistadors first invaded and then, of their own accord and largely by their own rules, settled in Central America. Shaped by pre-Columbian patterns of empire, alliance, warfare, and migration, the members of this diverse indigenous community became unified as the Mexicanos--descendants of Indian conquistadors in their adopted homeland. Their identity and higher status in Guatemalan society derived from their continued pride in their heritage, says Matthew, but also depended on Spanish colonialism's willingness to honor them. Throughout Memories of Conquest, Matthew charts the power of colonialism to reshape and restrict Mesoamerican society--even for those most favored by colonial policy and despite powerful continuities in Mesoamerican culture.

Invading Guatemala

Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271027584
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Invading Guatemala written by Matthew Restall and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invasions of Guatemala -- Pedro de Alvarado's letters to Hernando Cortes, 1524 -- Other Spanish accounts -- Nahua accounts -- Maya accounts

Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala, Fourth Edition

Author : W. George Lovell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077358367X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala, Fourth Edition written by W. George Lovell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala examines the impact of Spanish conquest and colonial rule on the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, a frontier region of Guatemala adjoining the country’s northwestern border with Mexico. While Spaniards penetrated and left an enduring mark on the region, the vibrant Maya culture they encountered was not obliterated and, though subjected to considerable duress from the sixteenth century on, endures to this day. This fourth edition of George Lovell’s classic work incorporates new data and recent research findings and emphasizes native resistance and strategic adaptation to Spanish intrusion. Drawing on four decades of archival foraging, Lovell focuses attention on issues of land, labour, settlement, and population to unveil colonial experiences that continue to affect how Guatemala operates as a troubled modern nation. Acclaimed by scholars across the humanities and social sciences, Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala remains a seminal account of the impact of Spanish colonialism in the Americas and a landmark contribution to Mesoamerican studies.

Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala

Author : George Lovell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773572066
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala written by George Lovell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992-03-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala".

“Strange Lands and Different Peoples”

Author : W. George Lovell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806151161
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” written by W. George Lovell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” examines the myriad ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the changes that took place in native life because of it. The studies assembled here, focusing on the first century of colonial rule (1524–1624), discuss issues of conquest and resistance, settlement and colonization, labor and tribute, and Maya survival in the wake of Spanish invasion. The authors reappraise the complex relationship between Spaniards and Indians, which was marked from the outset by mutual feelings of resentment and mistrust. While acknowledging the pivotal role of native agency, the authors also document the excesses of Spanish exploitation and the devastating impact of epidemic disease. Drawing on research findings in Spanish and Guatemalan archives, they offer fresh insight into the Kaqchikel Maya uprising of 1524, showing that despite strategic resistance, colonization imposed a burden on the indigenous population more onerous than previously thought. Guatemala remains a deeply divided and unjust society, a country whose current condition can be understood only in light of the colonial experiences that forged it. Affording readers a critical perspective on how Guatemala came to be, “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” shows the events of the past to have enduring contemporary relevance.

La Patria del Criollo

Author : Severo Martínez Peláez
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822392062
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book La Patria del Criollo written by Severo Martínez Peláez and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation of Severo Martínez Peláez’s La Patria del Criollo, first published in Guatemala in 1970, makes a classic, controversial work of Latin American history available to English-language readers. Martínez Peláez was one of Guatemala’s foremost historians and a political activist committed to revolutionary social change. La Patria del Criollo is his scathing assessment of Guatemala’s colonial legacy. Martínez Peláez argues that Guatemala remains a colonial society because the conditions that arose centuries ago when imperial Spain held sway have endured. He maintains that economic circumstances that assure prosperity for a few and deprivation for the majority were altered neither by independence in 1821 nor by liberal reform following 1871. The few in question are an elite group of criollos, people of Spanish descent born in Guatemala; the majority are predominantly Maya Indians, whose impoverishment is shared by many mixed-race Guatemalans. Martínez Peláez asserts that “the coffee dictatorships were the full and radical realization of criollo notions of the patria.” This patria, or homeland, was one that criollos had wrested from Spaniards in the name of independence and taken control of based on claims of liberal reform. He contends that since labor is needed to make land productive, the exploitation of labor, particularly Indian labor, was a necessary complement to criollo appropriation. His depiction of colonial reality is bleak, and his portrayal of Spanish and criollo behavior toward Indians unrelenting in its emphasis on cruelty and oppression. Martínez Peláez felt that the grim past he documented surfaces each day in an equally grim present, and that confronting the past is a necessary step in any effort to improve Guatemala’s woes. An extensive introduction situates La Patria del Criollo in historical context and relates it to contemporary issues and debates.

Catholic Colonialism

Author : Adriaan C. van Oss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521527125
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Catholic Colonialism written by Adriaan C. van Oss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Encomienda Politics In Early Colonial Guatemala, 1524-1544

Author : Wendy Kramer
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encomienda Politics In Early Colonial Guatemala, 1524-1544 written by Wendy Kramer and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1994-08-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on unpublished documentary sources from Spain and Guatemala, this innovative study reveals previously unknown episodes in the history of Guatemala's early colonial period, and offers a chronology of the development of the encomienda.

Strange Lands and Different Peoples

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461947707
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Strange Lands and Different Peoples written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"strange Lands and Different Peoples", Volume 271

Author : W. George Lovell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806167152
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (671 download)

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Book Synopsis "strange Lands and Different Peoples", Volume 271 by : W. George Lovell

Download or read book "strange Lands and Different Peoples", Volume 271 written by W. George Lovell and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” examines the myriad ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the changes that took place in native life because of it. The studies assembled here, focusing on the first century of colonial rule (1524–1624), discuss issues of conquest and resistance, settlement and colonization, labor and tribute, and Maya survival in the wake of Spanish invasion. The authors reappraise the complex relationship between Spaniards and Indians, which was marked from the outset by mutual feelings of resentment and mistrust. While acknowledging the pivotal role of native agency, the authors also document the excesses of Spanish exploitation and the devastating impact of epidemic disease. Drawing on research findings in Spanish and Guatemalan archives, they offer fresh insight into the Kaqchikel Maya uprising of 1524, showing that despite strategic resistance, colonization imposed a burden on the indigenous population more onerous than previously thought. Guatemala remains a deeply divided and unjust society, a country whose current condition can be understood only in light of the colonial experiences that forged it. Affording readers a critical perspective on how Guatemala came to be, “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” shows the events of the past to have enduring contemporary relevance.

Women Who Live Evil Lives

Author : Martha Few
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292782004
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Women Who Live Evil Lives written by Martha Few and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed-race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell-casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America. Men and women from all sectors of society consulted them to intervene in sexual and familial relations and disputes between neighbors and rival shop owners; to counter abusive colonial officials, employers, or husbands; and in cases of inexplicable illness. Applying historical, anthropological, and gender studies analysis, Martha Few argues that women's local practices of magic, curing, and religion revealed opportunities for women's cultural authority and power in colonial Guatemala. Few draws on archival research conducted in Guatemala, Mexico, and Spain to shed new light on women's critical public roles in Santiago, the cultural and social connections between the capital city and the countryside, and the gender dynamics of power in the ethnic and cultural contestation of Spanish colonial rule in daily life.

WorldRover: Guatemala History

Author :
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book WorldRover: Guatemala History written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WorldRover presents a brief history about Guatemala. The information was obtained from the 1998 U.S. State Department Background Notes. The Mayan civilization inhabited Guatemala long before the Spanish arrived. Most of Central America came under the control of the Captaincy General of Guatemala during Spanish colonial rule. The country gained independence from Spain on September 15, 1821.

A Statistical and Commercial History of the Kingdom of Guatemala, in Spanish America

Author : Domingo Juarros
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Statistical and Commercial History of the Kingdom of Guatemala, in Spanish America written by Domingo Juarros and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773

Author : Christopher Lutz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Santiago de Guatemala, 1541-1773 written by Christopher Lutz and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija'ib' K'iche' Títulos

Author : Mallory Matsumoto
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607326051
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija'ib' K'iche' Títulos written by Mallory Matsumoto and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos is a careful analysis and translation of five Highland Maya títulos composed in the sixteenth century by the Nija’ib’ K’iche’ of Guatemala. The Spanish conquest of Highland Guatemala entailed a series of sweeping changes to indigenous society, not the least of which were the introduction of the Roman alphabet and the imposition of a European system of colonial government. Introducing the history of these documents and placing them within the context of colonial-era Guatemala, this volume provides valuable information concerning colonial period orthographic practice, the K’iche’ language, and language contact in Highland Guatemala. For each text, author Mallory E. Matsumoto provides a photographic copy of the original document, a transliteration of its sixteenth-century modified Latin script, a transcription into modern orthography, an extensive morphologic analysis, and a line-by-line translation into English, as well as separate prose versions of the transcription and translation. No complete English translation of this set of manuscripts has been available before, nor has any Highland Maya título previously received such extensive analytical treatment. Offering insight into the reality of indigenous Highland communities during this period, Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos is an important primary source for linguists, historians, and experts in comparative literature. It will also be of significant interest to students and scholars of ethnohistory, linguistics, Latin American studies, anthropology, and archaeology.

Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery

Author : Sylvia Sellers-García
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804788820
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery written by Sylvia Sellers-García and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Empire is famous for being, at its height, the realm upon which "the sun never set." It stretched from the Philippines to Europe by way of the Americas. And yet we know relatively little about how Spain managed to move that crucial currency of governance—paper—over such enormous distances. Moreover, we know even less about how those distances were perceived and understood by people living in the empire. This book takes up these unknowns and proposes that by examining how documents operated in the Spanish empire, we can better understand how the empire was built and, most importantly, how knowledge was created. The author argues that even in such a vast realm, knowledge was built locally by people who existed at the peripheries of empire. Organized along routes and centralized into local nodes, peripheral knowledge accumulated in regional centers before moving on to the heart of the empire in Spain. The study takes the Kingdom of Guatemala as its departure point and examines the related aspects of documents and distance in three sections: part one looks at document genre, and how the creation of documents was shaped by distance; part two looks at the movement of documents and the workings of the mail system; part three looks at document storage and how archives played an essential part in the flow of paper.