Chapter One. Geography (Numbers: 1-80) -- Descriptions of landscape, towns, climate, fruits, flowers -- Geographical and historical reports -- Maps -- Conservation of natural resources and flood control -- Flooding in Ciudad Real [San Cristobal de las Casas] -- Earthquakes -- Malaria -- Chapter Two. History (Numbers: 81-202) -- The sixteenth century -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- Chapter Three. Economy (Numbers: 203-296) -- The sixteenth century -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- The nineteenth century -- Chapter Four. Religious Orders (Numbers: 297-377) -- General -- Order of San Agustin -- Bethlemite Order -- Jesuit Order -- Congregacion de San Felipe Neri [Escuela de Cristo] -- Dominican Order -- Franciscan Order -- Order of La Merced -- Order of La Recoleccion -- Order of San Juan de Dios -- Order of Santa Catalina -- Nunnery of Santa Clara -- Chapter Five. Religion, Conversion and Idolatry (Numbers: 378-483) -- Religion, sixteenth century -- Religion, seventeenth century -- Religion, eighteenth century -- Conversion, general -- Conversion, sixteenth century -- Conversion, seventeenth century -- Conversion, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Idolatry -- Chapter Six. Population (Numbers: 484-640) -- Native population before European contact -- Decline of native population, sixteenth century -- Decline of native population, sixteenth and eighteenth centuries -- Decline of native population, disease and overwork -- Classification criteria used in counting and census; general figures of population, sixteenth to nineteenth centuries -- Population of urban places, general -- Population of Chiapas (Chiapa and Soconusco) -- Population of Costa Rica -- Population of El Salvador -- Population of Guatemala -- Population of Honduras -- Population of Nicaragua -- Chapter Seven. Social Stratification of the Population: Mestization of the Indians, Spaniards and Negroes (Numbers: 641-744) -- Nomenclature: Indian, Mestizo, Mulatto, Ladino, Pardo -- Indians -- Segregation of Indians from other castes, classes or races -- Castes. Juridical structure of society based on race; interbreeding of the races -- Negroes and mulattoes -- Ladinos -- Negroes, mulattoes, ladinos, pardos and zambos -- Society -- Chapter Eight. Urbanization: History (Numbers: 745-796) -- Precolumbian -- The sixteenth century -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- Chapter Nine. Urbanization: Towns (Numbers: 797-868) -- Precolumbian -- The sixteenth century -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- The nineteenth century -- Extinct towns -- Chapter Ten. Urbanization: Town Plans (Numbers: 869-906) -- First Spanish city, sixteenth century -- Indian Towns, pueblos de indios, sixteenth century -- Antigua Guatemala in the sixteenth century -- Sixteenth-century gridiron-plan towns -- Eighteenth-century plans in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Nicaragua -- Drawings of city plans -- Chapter Eleven. Labor (Numbers: 907-1003) -- The sixteenth century: Spaniards -- The sixteenth century: Indians -- The sixteenth century: Negroes and regular clergy -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- Chapter Twelve. Architecture: Materials and Methods of Construction, Plans, Design, and Architects (Numbers: 1004-1116) -- The sixteenth century -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- The nineteenth century -- Plans and drawings -- Figures --
Volume I is a compendium of data from the former Reino de Guatemala prior to independence from Spain. Documentation from archives in Seville, Madrid & Central America. Markman provides a derrotero, a navigational chart, with "sailing instructions" to the scholar searching for elusive information. Text includes data difficult to access. Observance of "America 500." Bibliography & index. In English & Spanish. "This is without a doubt a true work of art. It is crafted to perfection, almost as precisely as if executed with the same rule & compass as were used to draw the plans of the Spanish towns. The information encourages Central American research." - Francisco de Solano, Centro de Estudios Historicos, Madrid. "I consider Professor Markman's new work of the utmost importance for all the scholars of the history of art in Latin America...This work will join those of Hanke, Whitaker, & Bolton." - Jose Antonio Calderon Quijano, Escuela de Estudios Hispano- Americanos, Sevilla. "This is a very important research work...one of the more valuable...contributions to the Quincentenial." - Antonio Bonet Correa, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid.
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