Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Spanish Missionary Heritage of the United States
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Mexican American Voices
Author: Steven MintzPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405182601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This short, comprehensive collection of primary documents provides an indispensable introduction to Mexican American history and culture. Includes over 90 carefully chosen selections, with a succinct introduction and comprehensive headnotes that identify the major issues raised by the documents Emphasizes key themes in US history, from immigration and geographical expansion to urbanization, industrialization, and civil rights struggles Includes a 'visual history' chapter of images that supplement the documents, as well as an extensive bibliography
Laboring in the Fields of the Lord
Author: Jerald T. MilanichPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813029665
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The missions of Spanish Florida are one of American history's best kept secrets. Between 1565 and 1763, more than 150 missions with names like San Francisco and San Antonio dotted the landscape from south Florida to the Chesapeake Bay. Drawing on archaeological and historical research, much conducted in the last 25 years, Milanich offers a vivid description of these missions and the Apalachee, Guale, and Timucua Indians who lived and labored in them. First published in 1999 by Smithsonian Institution Press, Laboring in the Fields of the Lord contends the missions were an integral part of Spain's La Florida colony, turning a potentially hostile population into an essential labor force. Indian workers grew, harvested, ground, and transported corn that helped to feed the colony. Indians also provided labor for construction projects, including the imposing stone Castillo de San Marcos that still dominates St. Augustine today. Missions were essential to the goal of colonialism. Together, conquistadors, missionaries, and entrepreneurs went hand-in-hand to conquer the people of the Americas. Though long abandoned and destroyed, the missions are an important part of our country's heritage. This reprint edition includes a new, updated preface by the author.
The Spanish Missions of California
Author: Megan GendellPublisher: Children's Press
ISBN: 9780531212400
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the daily life of people who settled in the California missions, why the missions were built, and explores the reasons for the end of the mission era.
Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida
Author: Tanya M. PeresPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683402871
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This volume presents new data and interpretations from research at Florida’s Spanish missions, outposts established in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to strengthen the colonizing empire and convert Indigenous groups to Christianity. In these chapters, archaeologists, historians, and ethnomusicologists draw on the past thirty years of work at sites from St. Augustine to the panhandle. Contributors explore the lived experiences of the Indigenous people, Franciscan friars, and Spanish laypeople who lived in La Florida’s mission communities. In the process, they address missionization, ethnogenesis, settlement, foodways, conflict, and warfare. One study reconstructs the sonic history of Mission San Luis with soundscape compositions. The volume also sheds light on the destruction of the Apalachee-Spanish missions by the English. The recent investigations highlighted here significantly change earlier understandings by emphasizing the kind and degree of social, economic, and ideological relationships that existed between Apalachee and Timucuan communities and the Spanish. Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida updates and rewrites the history of the Spanish mission effort in the region. Contributors: Rachel M. Bani | Mark J Sciuhetti Jr | Rochelle A. Marrinan | Nicholas Yarbrough | Jerald T. Milanich | Jerry W Lee | Rebecca Douberly-Gorman | Alissa Slade Lotane | John E. Worth | Jonathan Sheppard | Laura Zabanal | Keith Ashley | Tanya M. Peres | Sarah Eyerly A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
The Book of Prophecies
Author: Christopher ColumbusPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1592446485
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Christopher Columbus returned to Europe in the final days of 1500, ending his third voyage to the Indies not in triumph but in chains. Seeking to justify his actions and protect his rights, he began to compile biblical texts and excerpts from patristic writings and medieval theology in a manuscript known as the Book of Prophecies. This unprecedented collection was designed to support his vision of the discovery of the Indies as an important event in the process of human salvation - a first step toward the liberation of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim domination. This work is part of a twelve-volume series produced by U.C.L.A.'s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies which involved the collaboration of some forty scholars over the course of fourteen years. In this volume of the series, Roberto Rusconi has written a complete historical introduction to the Book of Prophecies, describing the manuscript's history and analyzing its principal themes. His edition of the documents, the only modern one, includes a complete critical apparatus and detailed commentary, while the facing-page English translations allow Columbus's work to be appreciated by the general public and scholars alike.
Junípero Serra
Author: Rose Marie BeebePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806149663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
In Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary, Beebe and Senkewicz focus on Serra’s religious identity and his relations with Native peoples. They intersperse their narrative with new and accessible translations of many of Serra’s letters and sermons, which allows his voice to be heard in a more direct and engaging fashion.
Las Misiones Antiguas
Author: Edward W. VernonPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 9780826331106
Category : Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"More than 300 illustrations, including historic photographs, maps, and the history and major events at the missions make this book the most complete contemporary source of information on these intriguing and rapidly disappearing remnants of Mexican and American culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains
Author: George Frederick RuxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization
Author: Robert H. JacksonPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826317537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A readable and succinct account of how Indians fared under their Spanish Franciscan colonizers.