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i-iii, [1], iv-xvii, 1-192 pages. Paperback: H 27.5 x L 21.25cm. Tan paper covers. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding is firm. Front cover notes: "designed for use in teacher institutes funded by The National Endowment for the Humanities." A collection of literary and historical writings by various Spanish explorers, colonists, authors, administrators, etc. "designed to help teachers integrate language, literature, history, and culture and thereby bring the humanities content into the classroom" (from the Preface). The text is organized into seven sections titled: (1) "Early Documents and Observations Relating to the New World;" (2) "First Explorations into the Interior of the New World;" (3) "Later Expeditions into the Northern Gulf Region;" (4) "The Return of the Spanish to Mississippi;" (5) "Natchez, a Polygot Town of the Spanish Empire, 1779-98;" (6) "Spanish-Indian Relations: The Nogales Dispute, 1791-92;" and (7) "The Abbe Raynal's Critique of Empire - 1770.".