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New Spain's far northern frontier : essays on Spain in the American West, 1540-1821
- Title
- New Spain's far northern frontier : essays on Spain in the American West, 1540-1821 / David J. Weber, editor.
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1979]
- ©1979
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F799.N48 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xix, 321 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- -Bibliography: p. 309-311.
- Contents
- [1.] Relevance: The significance of the Spanish borderlands to the United States / Donald E. Worcester -- [2.] Exploration: The search for the fabulous in the settlement of the Southwest / George P. Hammond -- Spanish scientific exploration along the Pacific coast / Donald C. Cutter -- [3.] Institutions: The mission as a frontier institution in the Spanish American colonies / Herbert Eugene Bolton -- The Presidio : fortress or farce? / Odie B. Faulk -- The ranching frontier : Spanish institutional backgrounds of Plains cattle industry / Sandra L. Myres -- Settlement patterns and village plans in colonial New Mexico / Marc Simmons -- [4.] Society: California's Hispanic heritage: a view into the Spanish myth / Manuel Patricio Servin -- Comparative demographic analysis of Texas, 1777-1793 / Alicia Vidaurreta Tjarks -- [5.] Frontier influences: The California frontier / C. Alan Hutchinson -- The frontiers of Hispanic America / Silvio Zavala -- [6.] Eighteenth-century changes: The north of New Spain as a political problem in the eighteenth century / Luis Navarro Garcia (translated by Elizabeth Gard and David J. Weber) -- Spanish Indian policy in northern Mexico, 1765-1810 / Joseph F. Park -- [7.] Indians as actors: Shifting for survival in the Spanish Southwest / Albert H. Schroeder -- Indians and the breakdown of the Spanish mission system in California / George Harwood Phillips -- [8.] Cultural tradition: The flowering and decline of the New Mexican Santero: 1780-1900 / William Wroth -- [9.] More relevance: Spaniards, environment, and the Pepsi generation / John L. Kessell -- "Scarce more than apes": historical roots of Anglo-American stereotypes of Mexicans / David J. Weber.
- ISBN
- 0826304982
- 9780826304988
- 0826304990
- 9780826304995
- LCCN
- 78021428
- OCLC
- ocm04956459
- 4956459
- SCSB-264345
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library