Author: Albert Frederick CalvertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Spain
Author: Albert Frederick CalvertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Author: Robin VarnumPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806147369
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Texas. By July 1536, eight years later, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490–1559) and three other survivors had walked 2,500 miles from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora and ultimately to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of this astonishing journey is now recognized as one of the great travel stories of all time and a touchstone of New World literature. But his career did not begin and end with his North American ordeal. Robin Varnum’s biography, the first single-volume cradle-to-grave account of the explorer’s life in eighty years, tells the rest of the story. During Cabeza de Vaca’s peregrinations through the American Southwest, he lived among and interacted with various Indian groups. When he and his non-Indian companions finally reconnected with Spaniards in northern Mexico, he was horrified to learn that his compatriots were enslaving Indians there. His Relación (1542) advocated using kindness and fairness rather than force in dealing with the native people of the New World. Cabeza de Vaca went on to serve as governor of Spain’s province of Río de La Plata in South America (roughly modern Paraguay). As a loyal subject of the king of Spain, he supported the colonialist enterprise and believed in Christianizing the Indians, but he always championed the rights of native peoples. In Río de La Plata he tried to keep his men from robbing the Indians, enslaving them, or exploiting them sexually—policies that caused grumbling among the troops. When Cabeza de Vaca’s men mutinied, he was sent back to Spain in chains to stand trial before the Royal Council of the Indies. Drawing on the conquistador’s own reports and on other sixteenth-century documents, both in English translation and the original Spanish, Varnum’s lively narrative braids eyewitness testimony of events with historical interpretation benefiting from recent scholarship and archaeological investigation. As one of the few Spaniards of his era to explore the coasts and interiors of two continents, Cabeza de Vaca is recognized today above all for his more humane attitude toward and interactions with the Indian peoples of North America, Mexico, and South America.
Spain and Spanish America in the Libraries of the University of California
Author: Alice Irene LyserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The Spanish House for America
Author: Rexford NewcombPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Architecture
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The general and departmental libraries
Author: University of California, Berkeley. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Year Book of the Architectural League of New York, and Catalogue of the ... Annual Exhibition
Author: Architectural League of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Eclectic Odyssey of Atlee B. Ayres, Architect
Author: Robert James CootePublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585441228
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
During the three decades Coote examines, Ayres designed nearly two hundred homes in the fashionable San Antonio suburbs of Monte Vista, Olmos Park, and Terrell Hills, homes that even now rank among the most charming in the area.".
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