Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1648-1812A study of the development of human society in Yucatan during the colonial period, this book poses a challenge to a variety of accepted views, including the notion that Yucatan was largely isolated from the main part of Spain's New World empire and thus from international markets and the world economy an isolation often cited as the principal reason for the extended survival of indigenous culture in the region. In the seventeenth and eighteenth