Author: Maine. Adjutant-General's Office
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 1354
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Let There Be Towns
Author: Gilbert R. Cruz
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890966778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Three pillars supported the empire of New Spain. The first two, the presidio and the mission, have lived on in history and the popular imagination. The third, less studied and less understood, has lived on in the traditions of local self-governance and the distinctive cultural and social patterns of the Southwest. That third pillar is the civil settlement, or town, with its distinctive governmental institutions. Town councils, or cabildos, brought to the northern frontier a high degree of law and order, patterns of local government, a rough democracy, and the principle of justice based on rule of law. The towns populated the Borderlands, introduced industry, and contributed to the economy and defense of Hispanic territories. Let There Be Towns presents the origins and contributions of six of the early settlements of New Spain--San Antonio and Laredo in Spanish Texas, Santa Fe and El Paso in Nuevo Mexico, and San Jose and Los Angeles in Alta California. In Let There Be Towns, Gilbert R. Cruz carefully assesses their importance as part of the Spanish government's policy for implanting in North America the linguistic, social, religious, and political values of the crown. Ten years of archival study, as well as travel through Spain and Mexico researching the origins of colonial towns in parent institutions, have led the author to the provocative conclusion that town settlements and their civil governments were even more important than the more glamorous missions and presidios in establishing Spanish dominion over the northern Borderlands.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890966778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Three pillars supported the empire of New Spain. The first two, the presidio and the mission, have lived on in history and the popular imagination. The third, less studied and less understood, has lived on in the traditions of local self-governance and the distinctive cultural and social patterns of the Southwest. That third pillar is the civil settlement, or town, with its distinctive governmental institutions. Town councils, or cabildos, brought to the northern frontier a high degree of law and order, patterns of local government, a rough democracy, and the principle of justice based on rule of law. The towns populated the Borderlands, introduced industry, and contributed to the economy and defense of Hispanic territories. Let There Be Towns presents the origins and contributions of six of the early settlements of New Spain--San Antonio and Laredo in Spanish Texas, Santa Fe and El Paso in Nuevo Mexico, and San Jose and Los Angeles in Alta California. In Let There Be Towns, Gilbert R. Cruz carefully assesses their importance as part of the Spanish government's policy for implanting in North America the linguistic, social, religious, and political values of the crown. Ten years of archival study, as well as travel through Spain and Mexico researching the origins of colonial towns in parent institutions, have led the author to the provocative conclusion that town settlements and their civil governments were even more important than the more glamorous missions and presidios in establishing Spanish dominion over the northern Borderlands.
Let There Be Night
Author: Paul Bogard
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Twenty-nine writers, poets, scientists, and scholars testify on behalf of darkness and against light pollution's diminishment of the night.
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Twenty-nine writers, poets, scientists, and scholars testify on behalf of darkness and against light pollution's diminishment of the night.
Annual Report
Author: Maine. Adjutant-General's Office
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 1354
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Publisher:
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 1354
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Tejano Legacy
Author: Armando C. Alonzo
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826318978
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A revisionist account of the Tejano experience in south Texas from its Spanish colonial roots to 1900.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826318978
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A revisionist account of the Tejano experience in south Texas from its Spanish colonial roots to 1900.
The entire works of John Bunyan, ed. by H. Stebbing
Author: John Bunyan
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Author: James Anthony Froude
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The Town and Country Magazine, Or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Punch
Author: Mark Lemon
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Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Benefaction of William Evans, Esq. to the Town of Smithfield, Madison Co., N.Y.
Author: Smithfield (N.Y.)
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Category : Smithfield (N.Y. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Includes speeches, toasts, etc., by Gerrit Smith, William Evans, et al., Sept. 3, 1858, on the occasion of Evans' donation of $10,000 to benefit the poor.
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Category : Smithfield (N.Y. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Includes speeches, toasts, etc., by Gerrit Smith, William Evans, et al., Sept. 3, 1858, on the occasion of Evans' donation of $10,000 to benefit the poor.