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, the seizure of long-accumulated Indian wealth, the first
silver booms, and the period of modern raw material supply? How did
Latin America move from one stage to the other? What were these
intermediate economic stages, and what effect did they have on the
peoples living in Latin America? These questions continue to
resonate in Latin American studies today, making this updated
edition of Murdo J. MacLeod's original work more relevant than
ever.
Colonial Central America was a large, populous, and always
strategically significant stretch of land. With the Yucatá n, it
was home of the Maya, one of the great pre-Columbian cultures.
MacLeod examines the long-term process it underwent of relative
prosperity, depression, and then recovery, citing comparative
sources on Europe to describe Central America's great economic,
demographic, and social cycles. With an updated historiographical
and bibliographical introduction, this fascinating study should
appeal to historians, anthropologists, and all who are interested
in the colonial experience of Latin America.
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