Temas de historia panameña

Présentation de l'éditeur : "Presents collection of previously published essays by distinguished specialist. Contributions on early colonial period include studies and documents on: themes of religiosity and death in Pedrarias' willustrations; early encomienda in Panama (2 studies); Pedrarias and Laws of Burgos (HLAS 52:1396); abandonment of Nombre de Dios and founding of Portobelo (HLAS 52:1397); royal treasury in 16th-century Panama (2 studies; for one- see HLAS 50:1348); 1550 revolt launched in Nicaragua by Pedrarias' grandsons- Pedro and Hernando de Contreras (2 studies); and bureaucracy and power in 16th century. Other items are synthetic treatments of Central America in the 19th-20th centuries- bibliography of urban history (unrelated to Panama)- and polemic on 1989 US invasion to oust dictator Manuel Noriega"--Handbook of Latin American Studies- v. 58.