Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis
by
Timothy Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Latin American independence histories of the last 150 years have tended to stereotype Captain General Bustamante, governor of the Spanish colony of Guatemala from 1811 to 1818, as a tyrannical arch-villain who personified colonial oppression. Timothy Hawkins, in contrast, examines Bustamante and his...