Author: Vernon Dale TatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Blas (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
The Founding of the Port of San Blas
Author: Vernon Dale TatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Blas (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
An Introduction to the Founding of the Port of San Blas
Author: Vernon Dale TatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Blas (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Founding of Spanish California
Author: Charles Edward ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The Port of San Blas
Author: Nayarit (Mexico). Departamento de Turismo y PublicidadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Blas (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The Founding of San Francisco
Author: Charles Edward ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Founding of Spanish California
Author: Charles Edward ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Search for the Camino Real
Author: Robert RichterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781432753320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Both historical investigation and travelogue, this documented study of the end of the Camino Real and San Blas, Mexico, is woven into the authors personal account of the search for remnants of Mexicos colonial road in the lowlands and sierras of modern Nayarit, aided and accompanied in his excursions by various regional historians, local guides, and curious companions. And like the old road running through the contemporary landscape, the historical narrative merges into the story of the regions modern character and development. To explore Nayarits wild and gorgeous geography, trying to site the ancient Camino Real, is to stumble over another road running toward the states future economic development as part of the Mexican Riviera. Nearly five hundred years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the history of San Blas and the road to get there is still being written. This is a contemporary narrative portrait. This historical work completes a trilogy of books by Robert Richter centered on the fading coastal village culture of Nayarit and the Mexican Riviera. It is the first comprehensive study of San Blas region in English since 1967.
History of California
Author: Theodore Henry HittellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The Pacific Ocean in History
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher: New York : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Pacific Coast
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Mapping and Empire
Author: Dennis ReinhartzPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292774419
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
From the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries, Spain, then Mexico, and finally the United States took ownership of the land from the Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico to the Pacific Coast of Alta and Baja California—today's American Southwest. Each country faced the challenge of holding on to territory that was poorly known and sparsely settled, and each responded by sending out military mapping expeditions to set boundaries and chart topographical features. All three countries recognized that turning terra incognita into clearly delineated political units was a key step in empire building, as vital to their national interest as the activities of the missionaries, civilian officials, settlers, and adventurers who followed in the footsteps of the soldier-engineers. With essays by eight leading historians, this book offers the most current and comprehensive overview of the processes by which Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. soldier-engineers mapped the southwestern frontier, as well as the local and even geopolitical consequences of their mapping. Three essays focus on Spanish efforts to map the Gulf and Pacific Coasts, to chart the inland Southwest, and to define and defend its boundaries against English, French, Russian, and American incursions. Subsequent essays investigate the role that mapping played both in Mexico's attempts to maintain control of its northern territory and in the United States' push to expand its political boundary to the Pacific Ocean. The concluding essay draws connections between mapping in the Southwest and the geopolitical history of the Americas and Europe.