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.
“This is the best book-length study, to date, of any of the Spanish
invasions of the Maya area. Strike Fear in the Land shows how a
sensitive reading of both European and Mesoamerican sources can
produce a succinct and significant contribution to the New Conquest
History.”—Matthew Restall, author of When Montezuma Met CortÉs: The
True Story of the Meeting That Changed History
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