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Encomienda Politics in Early Colonial Guatemala, 1524-1544: Dividing the Spoils (Dellplain Latin American Studies)
Encomienda Politics in Early Colonial Guatemala 15241544 Dividing the Spoils - Dellplain Latin American Studies Author:Wendy Kramer Based on unpublished documentary sources from Spain and Guatemala, this innovative study reveals previously unknown episodes in the history of Guatemala's early colonial period. Kramer studies the distribution of Indian communities to Spanish conquistadors and settlers in the first two decades of the colonization of Guatemala, establishing for t... more »he first time a dynamic chronology of the development of the encomienda.« less