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Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California - Couverture souple

Kessell, John L.

 
9780806134840: Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0806134844 ISBN 13 : 9780806134840
Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.


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À propos de l'auteur

John L. Kessell is author of several books on the colonial Southwest, including Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico and Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California.

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Éditeur
University of Oklahoma Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0806134844
ISBN 13 
9780806134840
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
480
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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