Bøger af Robert W. Patch

The history of relations between the Spanish and the Indians of colonial Central America forms a complicated tapestry of economics and politics. Robert Patch's even-handed study of the repartimiento de mercancIas reveals the inner workings of colonialism in Central America.

Records of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions provide insight into the nature of the Maya in the colonial period. This work presents five case studies - four in Guatemala and one in Yucatan, Mexico - of 18th-century Maya acts of violent resistance to colonialism.

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 isolated from the main part of Spain's New World empire and thus from international markets and the world economy.