Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala, Fourth Edition

A landmark contribution to research on Mesoamerica, updated and expanded.

W. George Lovell is professor of geography at Queen’s University and visiting professor in Latin American history at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain.W. George Lovell is professor of geography at Queen’s University and visiting professor in Latin American history at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain.

"A careful craftsman has produced a gem of a book." American Ethnologist

"George Lovell is a man of imagination and a writer of considerable talent. He is also a fine researcher, deeply respectful of the rules of evidence yet capable of seeing, and helping us to see, the human lives behind documents and dry statistics." Ronald Wright, author of Time Among the Maya

“Lovell’s monograph stands virtually alone … he rewrites Guatemala’s entire colonial history by placing evidence and protagonists from an overwhelmingly Maya periphery at its center. The result is a deeper and more balanced understanding of the people and

"This is an excellent book in all respects. It remains an important resource on Guatemala and in the impact of the Spanish presence on the New World's native populations." Journal of Cultural Geography