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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- A New Introduction: More than Three Decades of Writing on Spanish Central America, 1973-2006 -- Preface -- By Way of Introduction: The War of the Worlds -- Part One. THE SOCIETY OF CONQUEST AND ENCOMIENDA, 1520-1576 -- 1. The Central American Background and Conquest -- 2. Slaves and Silver: The First Exports -- 3. Ephemeral Hopes -- 4. Soconusco, A Hint of Things to Come -- 5. The Cacao Boom -- 6. From Conquest to the Emergence of Order and Pattern -- 7. The Two Republics, Indians and Spaniards, in the Age of Encomienda -- Part Two. YEARS OF TRIAL AND MUCH ERROR: THE ECONOMICS OF SEARCH AND DIVERSIFICATION, C. 1576-1635 -- 8. Attempts to Revive Declining Industries -- 9. The Search for New Industries and Trades -- 10. Indigo, 1580-1720: Possibilities and Frustrations -- 11. The Effects of the Crisis on Local Populations and Economy -- Part Three. THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DEPRESSION AND THE FIRST SIGNS OF RECOVERY, C. 1635-1720 -- 12. The Aftermath of a Boom: Seventeenth-Century Cacao -- 13. Honduran Mining: The Emergence of a Local Industry and Culture -- 14. External Trades in the Depth of the Depression -- 15. The Currency Crisis -- 16. Men and Land in Mid-Century: Contraction and Isolation -- 17. The Two Republics in the Years of Depression -- 18. Costa Rican Cacao -- 19. Signs of Strain and Change (c. 1685-1720) -- 20. The Growth of a New Solution: The Rise of Smuggling -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

The colonial settlement of Santa Ana has been somewhat neglected by authorities and historians. This article looks at the founding there in 1672–73 of a confraternity dedicated to Saint Rose of Lima and how this illustrates several aspects of life at that time. When the bishop of Guatemala imposed full Tridentine authority on Santa Ana, many confraternities tried to avoid it. Quiet struggles over the roles of the local priest, supervision of the elections of office holders, the location of the new altar, ethnic and gender memberships, and the changing nature of the multiethnic settlement, all led to readjustments. These contentions continued throughout the colonial period and after.

Professor Carmagnani's essay consists of two parts. In the first three-quarters of the essay, he rapidly reviews historical writing on colonial Mexico from about 1970 until 1981, identifying major topics, tendencies, and prospects for the future. In the second part of the essay, Carmagnani turns to some of what he believes to be the shortcomings of this decade or more of writing, especially what he views as its failure to establish a new periodization for the Mexican colonial centuries. In discussing this "inertia" in the new generation of social historians, he proposes a periodization that he believes more accurately "fits" the general findings of this recent historical corpus.

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