Author: John L. Kessell
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806180129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the Spanish empire. Chronicling the period of Hispanic activity from the time of Columbus to Mexico’s independence from Spain in 1821, Kessell traces the three great swells of Hispanic exploration, encounter, and influence that rolled north from Mexico across the coasts and high deserts of the western borderlands. Throughout this sprawling historical landscape, Kessell treats grand themes through the lives of individuals. He explains the frequent cultural clashes and accommodations in remarkably balanced terms. Stereotypes, the author writes, are of no help. Indians could be arrogant and brutal, Spaniards caring, and vice versa. If we select the facts to fit preconceived notions, we can make the story come out the way we want, but if the peoples of the colonial Southwest are seen as they really were--more alike than diverse, sharing similar inconstant natures--then we need have no favorites.
Spain in the Southwest
Author: John L. Kessell
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806180129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the Spanish empire. Chronicling the period of Hispanic activity from the time of Columbus to Mexico’s independence from Spain in 1821, Kessell traces the three great swells of Hispanic exploration, encounter, and influence that rolled north from Mexico across the coasts and high deserts of the western borderlands. Throughout this sprawling historical landscape, Kessell treats grand themes through the lives of individuals. He explains the frequent cultural clashes and accommodations in remarkably balanced terms. Stereotypes, the author writes, are of no help. Indians could be arrogant and brutal, Spaniards caring, and vice versa. If we select the facts to fit preconceived notions, we can make the story come out the way we want, but if the peoples of the colonial Southwest are seen as they really were--more alike than diverse, sharing similar inconstant natures--then we need have no favorites.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806180129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
John L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the Spanish empire. Chronicling the period of Hispanic activity from the time of Columbus to Mexico’s independence from Spain in 1821, Kessell traces the three great swells of Hispanic exploration, encounter, and influence that rolled north from Mexico across the coasts and high deserts of the western borderlands. Throughout this sprawling historical landscape, Kessell treats grand themes through the lives of individuals. He explains the frequent cultural clashes and accommodations in remarkably balanced terms. Stereotypes, the author writes, are of no help. Indians could be arrogant and brutal, Spaniards caring, and vice versa. If we select the facts to fit preconceived notions, we can make the story come out the way we want, but if the peoples of the colonial Southwest are seen as they really were--more alike than diverse, sharing similar inconstant natures--then we need have no favorites.
The California Column
Author: George Henry Pettis
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498160889
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498160889
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.
All the Southwest
Author: Thomas B. Lesure
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Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Southwest, New
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Mexican-american Interstate Migration Flows Among Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas
Author: Rogelio Sáenz
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Languages : en
Pages : 5
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Languages : en
Pages : 5
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The Border Commissions of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas
Author: T. Zane Reeves
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Category : Mexican-American Border Region
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Category : Mexican-American Border Region
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas
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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Spanish Southwest, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
Author: Kenneth Nebenzahl, Chicago
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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Mexicana
Author: E. R. Goodridge
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Northern Mexico on the eve of the United States invasion
Author: David J. Weber
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Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 440
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Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 440
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Afoot and Alone
Author: Stephen Powers
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Category : Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category : Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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