Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Plates -- 1 Geography and the Past -- PART ONE: THE REGIONAL SETTING -- 2 Physical and Human Geography -- PART TWO: CONTACT AND CONQUEST (1500-1541) -- 3 The Cultural Landscape on the Eve of Spanish Conquest -- 4 Conquest and Subjugation by Imperial Spain -- 5 The Cuchumatán Population at Spanish Contact -- PART THREE: THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE (1541-1821) -- 6 In Pursuit of Order: Congregación and the Administration of Empire -- 7 Economic Demands and Ethnic Relations: Spanish Control of the Indian Population -- 8 Working the Land: Landholding Patterns and the Agricultural Economy -- 9 Collapse and Recovery: Demographic Change in the Native Population -- 10 Refuge in the Mountains -- 11 Quincentennial Reflections -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- L -- M -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- X -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.