Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Physical Environment and Population -- Chapter Two. Conquest, Depopulation, and Colonization, 1697-1821 -- Chapter Three. Social Continuity and Economic Stagnation, 1821-1890s -- Chapter Four. La Chiclería: An Extractive Economy -- Chapter Five. The Impact of Oro Blanco -- Chapter Six. Conclusion: Continuity, Change, and a New Turn -- Appendix: Status Continuity in Petén, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
The author contends that for 250 years, roughly from the 1720s to the 1970s, the sociocultural system of Petén endured with remarkable continuity, not in spite of the changes in the hinterland region but, to an important degree, because of them
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In English
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