Martínez Peláez / Severo Martinez Pelaez / Lovell La Patria del Criollo

An Interpretation of Colonial Guatemala
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9206-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 382 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

This translation of a history of colonial Guatemala, first published in that country in 1970, makes a classic, controversial work of Latin American history available to English-language readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martínez Peláez, Severo

Severo Martinez Pelaez, Martinez Pelaez

Lovell, W. George

Lutz, Christopher H.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Neve, Susan M.

Lovell, W. George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xiii

Chronology of Events xlvii

Preamble 1

1. Criollos 7

2. Two Spains (1) 27

3. Two Spains (2) 54

4. Land of Miracles 75

5. Indians 114

6. Race Mixture and the Middle Strata 148

7. Class Dynamics and the Middle Strata 193

8. Life in Indian Towns 225

9. The Colonial Legacy 274

Glossary 301

Bibliography 309

Index 313

Über Autor(innen)

Severo Martínez Peláez (1925–1998) is recognized as one of Central America’s most distinguished men of letters. The Association of Guatemalan Journalists awarded him the Quetzal de Oro for La Patria del Criollo. Susan M. Neve, a translator specializing in Spanish language and literature, teaches at City University and the University of Westminster in London. W. George Lovell is Professor of Geography at Queen’s University in Canada, and Visiting Lecturer in Latin American History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Spain. Christopher H. Lutz is cofounder of Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica in Antigua, Guatemala, and of the Maya Educational Foundation in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He is Managing Director of Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, also based in Wellfleet.