Encomienda Politics In Early Colonial Guatemala, 1524-1544: Dividing The Spoils

by 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Based on unpublished documentary sources from Spain and Guatemala, this innovative study reveals previously unknown episodes in the history of Guatemala's early colonial period.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 the first time a dynamic chronology of the development of the encomienda.

293 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994