Maya Conquistador
About the Author
The historian writer Matthew Restall is an associate lecturer of Colonial Latin American History as well as in the Women's Studies. Furthermore, at the Pennsylvania State University, he is also the director of Latin American Studies (Project Muse).The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society 1550-1850, published in 1997 whereas Maya Conquistador was followed in 1998. His latest publications include a book on Blacks in colonial Yucatan along with editing a volume on black-native relations in colonial Latin America (Project Muse).
Introduction of the Book
The book, Maya Conquistador published in 1998 fits in to the historiography conflict or argument for better and bigger use of national or resident language, instead of Spanish (Caribbean and Latin America, April 2000). The author Matthew Restall has made an important role in the learning about the Maya where this book comprises of initial colonial primary sources that have been translated from Yucatec Maya to English. However, there is an exception of one document that was written in Spanish by a Maya (Caribbean and Latin America, April 2000).
The translation has been done by the author himself; along with which, he also wrote two introductory chapters as well as outstanding comments and explanations on each segment of documents (Caribbean and Latin America, April 2000). However, the objective of the book was to provide readers of English with information in order to increase knowledge and insight of the Maya of colonial Yucatan (Caribbean and Latin America, April 2000).
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