Spanish Central America: A Socioeconomic History, 1520-1720

by Murdo J. MacLeod

Book Overview

The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten century." This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish Central America. The colonial Spanish society of the sixteenth century was very different from that described in the eighteenth century. What happened in the Latin American colonies between the first conquests,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029271761X
• ISBN13: 9780292717619
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.0"