Juan Domínguez de Mendoza
Juan Domínguez de Mendoza

Author: France V. Scholes

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0826351174

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Studies of seventeenth-century New Mexico have largely overlooked the soldiers and frontier settlers who formed the backbone of the colony and laid the foundations of European society in a distant outpost of Spain's North American empire. This book, the final volume in the Coronado Historical Series, recognizes the career of Juan Domínguez de Mendoza, a soldier-colonist who was as instrumental as any governor or friar in shaping Hispano-Indian society in New Mexico. Domínguez de Mendoza served in New Mexico from age thirteen to fifty-eight as a stalwart defender of Spain's interests during the troubled decades before the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. Because of his successful career, the archives of Mexico and Spain provide extensive information on his activities. The documents translated in this volume reveal more cooperative relations between Spaniards and Pueblo Indians than previously understood.

Reshaping New Spain
Reshaping New Spain

Author: Ethelia Ruiz Medrano

Publisher: University of Colorado

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13:

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The first English edition of Gobierno y Sociedad en Nueva Espana traces development of colonial institutions in Mexico and how they changed indigenous land and labour laws in bureaucrats' favour.

The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1 & 2
The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1 & 2

Author: Lawrence A. Clayton

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 1995-05-30

Total Pages: 1208

ISBN-13: 0817308245

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1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine. The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States. De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling through what is now Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. For anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians the surviving De Soto chronicles are valued for the unique ethnological information they contain. These documents, available here in a two volume set, are the only detailed eyewitness records of the most advanced native civilization in North America—the Mississippian culture—a culture that vanished in the wake of European contact.