Robert W Patch: 2 books
by Robert W. Patch
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America, often oversimplified as a story of unending Spanish abuse, forms a complicated tapestry of economics and politics. Robert W. Patch’s even-handed study of the repartimiento de mercancías—the commercial dealings...
by Robert W. Patch
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Records of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions provide insight into the nature of the Maya in the colonial period. This book presents five case studies - four in Guatemala and one in Yucatan, Mexico - of eighteenth-century Maya acts of violent resistance to colonialism, and, in the process, reveals...