Murdo J. Macleod is Emeritus Professor of History of the University of Florida at Gainesville.

• A New Introduction: More than Three Decades of Writing on Spanish Central America, 1973–2006 By Murdo J. MacLeod Preface By Way of Introduction: The War of the Worlds Part One. The Society of Conquest and Encomienda, 1520–1576 1. The Central American Background and Conquest 2. Slaves and Silver: The First Exports 3. Ephemeral Hopes 4. Soconusco, A Hint of Things to Come 5. The Cacao Boom 6. From Conquest to the Emergence of Order and Pattern 7. The Two Republics, Indians and Spaniards, in the Age of Encomienda Part Two. Years of Trial and Much Error: The Economics of Search and Diversification, c. 1576–1635 8. Attempts to Revive Declining Industries 9. The Search for New Industries and Trades 10. Indigo, 1580–1720: Possibilities and Frustrations 11. The Effects of the Crisis on Local Populations and Economy Part Three. The Seventeenth-Century Depression and the First Signs of Recovery, c. 1635–1720 12. The Aftermath of a Boom: Seventeenth-Century Cacao 13. Honduran Mining: The Emergence of a Local Industry and Culture 14. External Trades in the Depth of the Depression 15. The Currency Crisis 16. Men and Land in Mid-Century: Contraction and Isolation 17. The Two Republics in the Years of Depression 18. Costa Rican Cacao 19. Signs of Strain and Change (c. 1685–1720) 20. The Growth of a New Solution: The Rise of Smuggling Conclusion Appendix Abbreviations Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

Murdo J. Macleod is Emeritus Professor of History of the University of Florida at Gainesville.

• A New Introduction: More than Three Decades of Writing on Spanish Central America, 1973–2006 By Murdo J. MacLeod Preface By Way of Introduction: The War of the Worlds Part One. The Society of Conquest and Encomienda, 1520–1576 1. The Central American Background and Conquest 2. Slaves and Silver: The First Exports 3. Ephemeral Hopes 4. Soconusco, A Hint of Things to Come 5. The Cacao Boom 6. From Conquest to the Emergence of Order and Pattern 7. The Two Republics, Indians and Spaniards, in the Age of Encomienda Part Two. Years of Trial and Much Error: The Economics of Search and Diversification, c. 1576–1635 8. Attempts to Revive Declining Industries 9. The Search for New Industries and Trades 10. Indigo, 1580–1720: Possibilities and Frustrations 11. The Effects of the Crisis on Local Populations and Economy Part Three. The Seventeenth-Century Depression and the First Signs of Recovery, c. 1635–1720 12. The Aftermath of a Boom: Seventeenth-Century Cacao 13. Honduran Mining: The Emergence of a Local Industry and Culture 14. External Trades in the Depth of the Depression 15. The Currency Crisis 16. Men and Land in Mid-Century: Contraction and Isolation 17. The Two Republics in the Years of Depression 18. Costa Rican Cacao 19. Signs of Strain and Change (c. 1685–1720) 20. The Growth of a New Solution: The Rise of Smuggling Conclusion Appendix Abbreviations Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

Murdo J. Macleod is Emeritus Professor of History of the University of Florida at Gainesville.

• A New Introduction: More than Three Decades of Writing on Spanish Central America, 1973–2006 By Murdo J. MacLeod Preface By Way of Introduction: The War of the Worlds Part One. The Society of Conquest and Encomienda, 1520–1576 1. The Central American Background and Conquest 2. Slaves and Silver: The First Exports 3. Ephemeral Hopes 4. Soconusco, A Hint of Things to Come 5. The Cacao Boom 6. From Conquest to the Emergence of Order and Pattern 7. The Two Republics, Indians and Spaniards, in the Age of Encomienda Part Two. Years of Trial and Much Error: The Economics of Search and Diversification, c. 1576–1635 8. Attempts to Revive Declining Industries 9. The Search for New Industries and Trades 10. Indigo, 1580–1720: Possibilities and Frustrations 11. The Effects of the Crisis on Local Populations and Economy Part Three. The Seventeenth-Century Depression and the First Signs of Recovery, c. 1635–1720 12. The Aftermath of a Boom: Seventeenth-Century Cacao 13. Honduran Mining: The Emergence of a Local Industry and Culture 14. External Trades in the Depth of the Depression 15. The Currency Crisis 16. Men and Land in Mid-Century: Contraction and Isolation 17. The Two Republics in the Years of Depression 18. Costa Rican Cacao 19. Signs of Strain and Change (c. 1685–1720) 20. The Growth of a New Solution: The Rise of Smuggling Conclusion Appendix Abbreviations Notes Glossary Bibliography Index