Life and Times of Fray Junipero Serra V1-2
Author: Maynard J. Geiger
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 1014
ISBN-13: 9781258136482
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Author: Maynard J. Geiger
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 1014
ISBN-13: 9781258136482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maynard J. Geiger
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Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 1014
ISBN-13: 9781258031176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Maynard J. Geiger
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 548
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of Serra, from his birth in Mallorca, his early work in Mexico, and the establishing of the missions in California.
Author: Maynard J. Geiger
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 548
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of Serra, from his birth in Mallorca, his early work in Mexico, and the establishing of the missions in California.
Author: Maynard J. GEIGER
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Published: 1959
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Published: 1959
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeremy Beer
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2024-09-17
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 0806194995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe explorations of Francisco Garcés, an intrepid Franciscan friar of the eighteenth century, led to the opening of the first overland route from Mexico to California, produced new knowledge of unmapped terrain and unknown peoples, and revived dreams of Spanish imperial expansion. Beyond the Devil’s Road tells, for the first time, the full story of this extraordinary man’s epic life and journey and his critical place in the history of the American Southwest. From the moment he took up residence at the lonely mission of San Xavier del Bac in 1768, Garcés stood out among his fellow Spaniards for both the affection he showed the region’s Native peoples and his bravery. Traveling thousands of miles through modern Arizona, California, and Nevada to gather information for his superiors and preach to the unbaptized, he engaged the Indians of the Southwest with a respect for their ways and customs unprecedented among his peers, presaging a new—and better—model for cultural encounters. Along the way, he contacted more Indigenous groups than any other missionary of his time, often as the first European to do so. Garcés also paved the way and served as a guide for the famous expeditions of Juan Bautista de Anza in 1774 and 1775–76, bringing the first Spanish settlers to California—before the road he’d helped to open led to his death in the Quechan uprising of 1781. Consulting archives on three continents, including previously untapped sources and Garcés’s extensive diaries and letters, long obscured by unyielding language and handwriting, Beer crafts a nuanced and thoroughly engaging account of this incomparable explorer, groundbreaking missionary, and central actor in New Spain’s final sustained effort to expand its dominion into the lands that would become the American Southwest.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven W. Hackel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2018-02-23
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0520968166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs one of America’s most important missionaries, Junípero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California’s missions. It was for that work that he was canonized in 2015 by Pope Francis. Less well known, however, is the degree to which Junípero Serra embodied the social, religious and artistic currents that shaped Spain and Mexico across the 18th century. Further, Serra’s reception in American culture in the 19th and 20th centuries has often been obscured by the controversies surrounding his treatment of California’s Indians. This volume situates Serra in the larger Spanish and Mexican contexts within which he lived, learned, and came of age. Offering a rare glimpse into Serra’s life, these essays capture the full complexity of cultural trends and developments that paved the way for this powerful missionary to become not only California’s most polarizing historical figure but also North America’s first Spanish colonial saint.
Author: Francisco Palóu
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 602
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of Serra, from his birth in Mallorca, his early work in Mexico, and the establishing of the missions in California.