[PDF] Spanish Influence On The Old Southwest eBook

Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1476623279

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The traditional narrative of the American West tells of a frontier settled by pioneers emigrating from the east to the Pacific coast. Yet Spanish conquistadors arrived in Central America 150 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. With them came missionaries who tried to convert the Pueblo and Plains Indians to Christianity by force, a suppression of native religious beliefs that led to cultural clashes and outright war. This is the story--fully documented--of how Spanish explorers, soldiers and men of the church pushed north from Mexico in the 1500s, seeking riches and establishing settlements from Texas to California 250 years before the influx of American settlers in the mid-1800s.

Author : Nina Otero-Warren
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1611392322

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Nina Otero-Warren’s book, Old Spain in Our Southwest (1936), recorded her memories of the family hacienda in Las Lunas, New Mexico.

Author : David J. Weber
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826311948

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Located in Southwest Collection.

Author : John L. Kessell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0806180129

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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.

Author : Cleve Hallenbeck
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780366692460

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Excerpt from Spanish Missions of the Old Southwest N E of the most interesting, instructive, and romantic chapters of American history was written by the Brown Friars of the Order of San Francisco. Unarmed, and led by a compelling religious zeal, these Soldiers of the Cross carried the torch of civilization far into the uncharted wilds of New Spain, where they cheerfully accepted hard ships, privations, and perils that they might teach the relig ion of the Carpenter of Nazareth and the crafts of civilized life to the untamed savage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Edward H. Spicer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 2015-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0816532923

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After more than fifty years, Cycles of Conquest is still one of the best syntheses of more than four centuries of conquest, colonization, and resistance ever published. It explores how ten major Native groups in northern Mexico and what is now the United States responded to political incorporation, linguistic hegemony, community reorganization, religious conversion, and economic integration. Thomas E. Sheridan writes in the new foreword commissioned for this special edition that the book is “monumental in scope and magisterial in presentation.” Cycles of Conquest remains a seminal work, deeply influencing how we have come to view the greater Southwest and its peoples.