Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1648-1812

by Robert W. Patch

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804720622
• ISBN13: 9780804720625
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"