W. George Lovell is Professor of Geography at Queen’s
University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and author of A Beauty
That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala.
Christopher H. Lutz is author of Santiago de Guatemala,
1541-1773: City, Caste, and the Colonial Experience.
Wendy Kramer is author of Encomienda Politics in Early
Colonial Guatemala, 1524-1544: Dividing the Spoils.
William R. Swezey (1933-1989) was co-founder of the Centro
de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica in Guatemala and its
director for more than a decade.
Drawn from several decades of research in both Maya and Spanish sources, ‘Strange Lands and Different Peoples' brings us a sensitive and beautifully written account of the Spanish conquest and colonization of Guatemala and its indigenous people. The authors do a splendid job of explaining not only the conquest period but also the survival of Maya people and their culture."" - Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr., author of A Short History of Guatemala and Central America: A Nation Divided
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