Forced Native Labor in Sixteenth-Century Central America

by William L. Sherman

Book Overview

Little has been written on society in the Spanish Indies during the sixteenth century, although it was during those formative decades that the Latin American class structure evolved. The Spanish conquest of the Indians produced profound social dislocations as many Spaniards of a low station found themselves members of a new aristocracy and native lords were often reduced to servitude. This book presents the first comprehensive investigation of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803228007
• ISBN13: 9780803228009
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"