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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

Robinson A. Herrera. Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth-Century Santiago de Guatemala. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2003. Pp. x, 261. $50.00.
Robinson A. Herrera's book makes an admirable contribution to the historiography of colonial Guatemala. Herrera follows in the footsteps of his eminent mentor, James Lockhart, whose pioneering Spanish Peru, 1532–1560: A Colonial Society (1968) provides a model for Herrera's line of inquiry and his book's organization. Like Lockhart, Herrera meticulously probes copious but neglected notarial records to document the activities of the inhabitants of an early Spanish-American society, in this case the city of Santiago de Guatemala in the years 1538 to 1594.	1
Individual chapters set the economic context and chronicle in unprecedented detail the economic exploits and contributions of merchants, petty dealers, muleteers, small landholders, artisans, professionals, African and mulatto slaves, free blacks, and (after a chapter on the persistence of indigenous corporate structures) natives themselves. The author's approach is empirical and the book is written in a straightforward, unornamented style. The book is clearly organized, with brief summaries at the end of each chapter and a concluding chapter that recapitulates the main themes. Herrera's extraordinary documentary base (principally notarial records from Guatemala City's Archivo General de Centroamérica, supplemented by research in Seville's Archivo General de Indias) is thoroughly referenced, although sometimes the examples threaten to overwhelm the reader rather than clarifying patterns.	. . .

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