The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

Author: I. A. A. Thompson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-06-30

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780521416245

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This is a collection of recent revisionist essays on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile by Spanish historians. The aim if the volume is to draw the attention of English-speaking scholars to the new approaches, techniques and source materials that have transformed Catalan economic and social history over the past two decades and to make available in English the most important of the conclusions that have undermined the old but still standard orthodoxies of the textbooks, but that have been acceible hitherto only to specialists.

The Spanish Colonial Settlement Landscapes of New Mexico, 1598-1680
The Spanish Colonial Settlement Landscapes of New Mexico, 1598-1680

Author: Elinore M. Barrett

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0826350852

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The Spanish began to settle New Mexico in the sixteenth century, and although scholars have long known the names of those settlers, this is the first book to place the colonists on the map. Using documentary, genealogical, and archaeological sources, Elinore M. Barrett depicts the settlement patterns of Spaniards in New Mexico from the beginning of colonization in 1598 up to 1680, when the Pueblo Revolt forced the colonists to retreat for a time. Barrett describes the natural environment and the Pueblo villages that the Spanish colonists encountered, as well as the activities of the Spanish civil and religious establishments related to land, labor, and tribute and the mission and mining landscapes the colonists created. She also recounts the founding and settling of Santa Fe and analyzes demographic dynamics, adding a new dimension to studies of the colonial Southwest.