Conquest And Survival In Colonial Guatemala Fourth Edition

Author : W. George Lovell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077358367X
Total Pages : 343 pages
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Download or read book Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala, Fourth Edition written by W. George Lovell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala examines the impact of Spanish conquest and colonial rule on the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, a frontier region of Guatemala adjoining the country’s northwestern border with Mexico. While Spaniards penetrated and left an enduring mark on the region, the vibrant Maya culture they encountered was not obliterated and, though subjected to considerable duress from the sixteenth century on, endures to this day. This fourth edition of George Lovell’s classic work incorporates new data and recent research findings and emphasizes native resistance and strategic adaptation to Spanish intrusion. Drawing on four decades of archival foraging, Lovell focuses attention on issues of land, labour, settlement, and population to unveil colonial experiences that continue to affect how Guatemala operates as a troubled modern nation. Acclaimed by scholars across the humanities and social sciences, Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala remains a seminal account of the impact of Spanish colonialism in the Americas and a landmark contribution to Mesoamerican studies.

Author : George Lovell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773572066
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala written by George Lovell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992-03-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala".

Author : W. George Lovell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773583653
Total Pages : 343 pages
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Download or read book Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala, Fourth Edition written by W. George Lovell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala examines the impact of Spanish conquest and colonial rule on the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, a frontier region of Guatemala adjoining the country’s northwestern border with Mexico. While Spaniards penetrated and left an enduring mark on the region, the vibrant Maya culture they encountered was not obliterated and, though subjected to considerable duress from the sixteenth century on, endures to this day. This fourth edition of George Lovell’s classic work incorporates new data and recent research findings and emphasizes native resistance and strategic adaptation to Spanish intrusion. Drawing on four decades of archival foraging, Lovell focuses attention on issues of land, labour, settlement, and population to unveil colonial experiences that continue to affect how Guatemala operates as a troubled modern nation. Acclaimed by scholars across the humanities and social sciences, Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala remains a seminal account of the impact of Spanish colonialism in the Americas and a landmark contribution to Mesoamerican studies.

Author : Laura E. Matthew
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807882585
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of Conquest written by Laura E. Matthew and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their involvement in Spain's New World empire? Laura Matthew's study of Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala--the first study to focus on a single allied colony over the entire colonial period--places the Nahua, Zapotec, and Mixtec conquistadors of Guatemala and their descendants within a deeply Mesoamerican historical context. Drawing on archives, ethnography, and colonial Mesoamerican maps, Matthew argues that the conquest cannot be fully understood without considering how these Indian conquistadors first invaded and then, of their own accord and largely by their own rules, settled in Central America. Shaped by pre-Columbian patterns of empire, alliance, warfare, and migration, the members of this diverse indigenous community became unified as the Mexicanos--descendants of Indian conquistadors in their adopted homeland. Their identity and higher status in Guatemalan society derived from their continued pride in their heritage, says Matthew, but also depended on Spanish colonialism's willingness to honor them. Throughout Memories of Conquest, Matthew charts the power of colonialism to reshape and restrict Mesoamerican society--even for those most favored by colonial policy and despite powerful continuities in Mesoamerican culture.

Author : Kathryn Renton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316515079
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feral Empire written by Kathryn Renton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how horses shaped society, politics, and imperial control during the first century of conquest and colonization in Spanish America.

Author : W. George Lovell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806167009
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strike Fear in the Land written by W. George Lovell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conquest of Guatemala was brutal, prolonged and complex, fraught with intrigue and deception, and not at all clear-cut. Yet views persist of it as an armed confrontation whose stakes were evident and whose outcomes were decisive, especially in favor of the Spaniards. A critical reappraisal is long overdue, one that calls for us to reconsider events and circumstances in the light of not only new evidence but also keener awareness of indigenous roles in the drama. While acknowledging the prominent role played by Pedro de Alvarado (1485–1541), Strike Fear in the Land reexamines the conquest to give us a greater appreciation of indigenous involvement in it, and sustained opposition to it. Authors W. George Lovell, Christopher H. Lutz, and Wendy Kramer develop a fresh perspective on Alvarado as well as the alliances forged with native groups that facilitated Spanish objectives. The book reveals, for instance, that during the years most crucial to the conquest, Alvarado was absent from Guatemala more often than he was present; he relied on his brother, Jorge de Alvarado, to act in his stead. A pact with the Kaqchikel Maya was also not nearly as solid or long-lived as previously thought, as Alvarado’s erstwhile allies soon turned against the Spaniards, fomenting a prolonged rebellion. Even the story of the K’iche’ leader Tecún Umán, hailed in Guatemala as a national hero who fronted native resistance, undergoes significant revision. Strike Fear in the Land is an arresting saga of personalities and controversies, conveying as never before the turmoil of this pivotal period in Mesoamerican history.

Author : W. George Lovell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806151161
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” written by W. George Lovell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” examines the myriad ramifications of Spanish intrusion, especially Maya resistance to it and the changes that took place in native life because of it. The studies assembled here, focusing on the first century of colonial rule (1524–1624), discuss issues of conquest and resistance, settlement and colonization, labor and tribute, and Maya survival in the wake of Spanish invasion. The authors reappraise the complex relationship between Spaniards and Indians, which was marked from the outset by mutual feelings of resentment and mistrust. While acknowledging the pivotal role of native agency, the authors also document the excesses of Spanish exploitation and the devastating impact of epidemic disease. Drawing on research findings in Spanish and Guatemalan archives, they offer fresh insight into the Kaqchikel Maya uprising of 1524, showing that despite strategic resistance, colonization imposed a burden on the indigenous population more onerous than previously thought. Guatemala remains a deeply divided and unjust society, a country whose current condition can be understood only in light of the colonial experiences that forged it. Affording readers a critical perspective on how Guatemala came to be, “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” shows the events of the past to have enduring contemporary relevance.

Author : Oakah L. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806126036
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guatemala in the Spanish Colonial Period written by Oakah L. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive narrative history of Guatemala, the cultural and political heart of colonial Central America, focuses on the three centuries from the arrival of the conquistador Pedro de Alvarado in 1524 to the modern nation's declaration of independence in 1821. Distinguished historian Oakah L. Jones, Jr., examines both chronologically and topically the geography and the indigenous people of the region; Spain's conquest and initial colonization from 1524 to about 1540; government and administration under the Habsburgs and the Bourbons; the Roman Catholic Church; Spanish-Indian relations and labor practices; land, towns, and the economy; the colonial society and culture; and the effects of such natural disasters as earthquakes and of Spain's defenses of the colony and Kingdom of Guatemala. The author's research both in primary documents located in Spain, Guatemala, and the United States and in published monographs in Spanish and English makes this general history useful both to scholars and to general readers, who will also value its chronology of major events and glossary of terms. Because Guatemala's role was pivotal within the Kingdom of Guatemala (which included present-day Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica), this history is an excellent introduction to the effects of Spanish rule in Central America. Guatemala in the colonial period was a dynamic political entity, and Spain left important, enduring legacies in today's modern republic.

Author : Shirley A. Heying
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793602301
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Survivors of Genocide written by Shirley A. Heying and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the experiences of orphaned child survivors of Guatemala’s 36-year internal armed conflict and genocide who were raised in an in-country permanent residential home. Now adults, they have faced long-term consequences but also have become resilient, well-adapted adults with a strong sense of identity and belonging.

Author : Stephen Henighan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487522975
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala written by Stephen Henighan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, the Guatemalan civil war ended with the signing of the Peace Accords, facilitated by the United Nations and promoted as a beacon of hope for a country with a history of conflict. Twenty years later, the new era of political protest in Guatemala is highly complex and contradictory: the persistence of colonialism, fraught indigenous-settler relations, political exclusion, corruption, criminal impunity, gendered violence, judicial procedures conducted under threat, entrenched inequality, as well as economic fragility. Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala examines the complexities of the quest for justice in Guatemala, and the realities of both new forms of resistance and long-standing obstacles to the rule of law in the human and environmental realms. Written by prominent scholars and activists, this book explores high-profile trials, the activities of foreign mining companies, attempts to prosecute war crimes, and cultural responses to injustice in literature, feminist performance art and the media. The challenges to human and environmental capacities for justice are constrained, or facilitated, by factors that shape culture, politics, society, and the economy. The contributors to this volume include Guatemalans such as the human rights activist Helen Mack Chang, the environmental journalist Magal? Rey Rosa, former Guatemalan Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz, as well as widely published Guatemala scholars.