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Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1648-1812
Robert W. Patch


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1994
344 pages.
$80.00

Hardcover ISBN: 9780804720625
Ebook ISBN: 9780804765640

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A study of the development of human society in Yucatan during the colonial period, this book poses a challenge to a variety of accepted views, including the notion that Yucatan was largely isolated from the main part of Spain's New World empire and thus from international markets and the world economy - an isolation often cited as the principal reason for the extended survival of indigenous culture in the region. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Yucatan society was composed of both Maya and Spanish commonwealths, each with its own economic, social, and political organization. This book represents several new departures, both for what is known about colonial Yucatan and for colonial Latin American history in general. It forces the reader to rethink much of the received knowledge about acculturation, the hacienda, and inter-regional relations.

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“Complex, interesting, and convincing in its arguments, . . . [this book] forces the reader to rethink much of the received knowledge about acculturation, the hacienda, and interregional relations.”—Murdo J. MacLeod, University of Florida