Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-358) and index.
Contents
El Reino de Guatemala -- The Conquest and the Settlement -- The Kingdom Under the Hapsburgs -- Cross and Crown -- Colonial Society -- Crisis and Continuity, 1680-1730 -- pt. 2. The New Order -- The Transformation of the Colony -- The Bourbon Reforms in Central America -- At the Mercy of the Word Market -- The Indian Under the Later Bourbons -- The Economy Collapses -- Jose de Bustamante and the Crisis in Colonial Government -- pt. 3. The Center Gives Out -- The Widening Gyre -- The Republican Experiment: In Search of Order -- States Into Nations -- Caudillos, Castes, and Conclusions.
