The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846
Author: David J. Weber
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780826306036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective.
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Myth and the History of the Hispanic Southwest
Author: David J. Weber
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780826311948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocated in Southwest Collection.
Spain in the Southwest
Author: John L. Kessell
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2013-02-27
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 0806180129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn L. Kessell’s Spain in the Southwest presents a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain’s vast frontier--today’s American Southwest and Mexican North--which for two centuries served as a dynamic yet disjoined periphery of the Spanish empire. Chronicling the period of Hispanic activity from the time of Columbus to Mexico’s independence from Spain in 1821, Kessell traces the three great swells of Hispanic exploration, encounter, and influence that rolled north from Mexico across the coasts and high deserts of the western borderlands. Throughout this sprawling historical landscape, Kessell treats grand themes through the lives of individuals. He explains the frequent cultural clashes and accommodations in remarkably balanced terms. Stereotypes, the author writes, are of no help. Indians could be arrogant and brutal, Spaniards caring, and vice versa. If we select the facts to fit preconceived notions, we can make the story come out the way we want, but if the peoples of the colonial Southwest are seen as they really were--more alike than diverse, sharing similar inconstant natures--then we need have no favorites.
Spanish Influence on the Old Southwest
Author: Jeremy Agnew
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-11-13
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1476623279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe traditional narrative of the American West tells of a frontier settled by pioneers emigrating from the east to the Pacific coast. Yet Spanish conquistadors arrived in Central America 150 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. With them came missionaries who tried to convert the Pueblo and Plains Indians to Christianity by force, a suppression of native religious beliefs that led to cultural clashes and outright war. This is the story--fully documented--of how Spanish explorers, soldiers and men of the church pushed north from Mexico in the 1500s, seeking riches and establishing settlements from Texas to California 250 years before the influx of American settlers in the mid-1800s.
A History of the Ancient Southwest
Author: Stephen H. Lekson
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies. This book challenges and reconfigures these accepted notions by telling two parallel stories, one about the development, personalities, and institutions of Southwestern archaeology and the other about interpretations of what actually happened in the ancient past. While many works would have us believe that nothing much ever happened in the ancient Southwest, this book argues that the region experienced rises and falls, kings and commoners, war and peace, triumphs and failures. In this view, Chaco Canyon was a geopolitical reaction to the "Colonial Period" Hohokam expansion and the Hohokam "Classic Period" was the product of refugee Chacoan nobles, chased off the Colorado Plateau by angry farmers. Far to the south, Casas Grandes was a failed attempt to create a Mesoamerican state, and modern Pueblo people--with societies so different from those at Chaco and Casas Grandes--deliberately rejected these monumental, hierarchical episodes of their past. From the publisher: The second printing of A History of the Ancient Southwest has corrected the errors noted below. SAR Press regrets an error on Page 72, paragraph 4 (also Page 275, note 2) regarding "absolute dates." "50,000 dates" was incorrectly published as "half a million dates." Also P. 125, lines 13-14: "Between 21,000 and 27,000 people lived there" should read "Between 2,100 and 2,700 people lived there."
Mexican Ghost Tales of the Southwest
Author: Alfred Avila
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Published: 1994-09-30
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781558856370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraditional Mexican stories tell of ghosts, evil spirits, devils, curses, and supernatural forces.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Author: Richard Griswold del Castillo
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1992-09-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780806124780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSigned in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war between the United States and Mexico and gave a large portion of Mexico’s northern territories to the United States. The language of the treaty was designed to deal fairly with the people who became residents of the United States by default. However, as Richard Griswold del Castillo points out, articles calling for equality and protection of civil and property rights were either ignored or interpreted to favor those involved in the westward expansion of the United States rather than the Mexicans and Indians living in the conquered territories.
The Taos Trappers
Author: David J. Weber
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1980-12-15
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780806117027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this comprehensive history, David J. Weber draws on Spanish, Mexican, and American sources to describe the development of the Taos trade and the early penetration of the area by French and American trappers. Within this borderlands region, colorful characters such as Ewing Young, Kit Carson, Peg-leg Smith, and the Robidoux brothers pioneered new trails to the Colorado Basin, the Gila River, and the Pacific and contributed to the wealth that flowed east along the Santa Fe Trail.
Ancient Peoples Of The American Southwest 2e
Author: Stephen Plog
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A graphic, lucid account of the Anasazi, Hohokam, and Mogollon highlights how these ancient cultures evolved so successfully in response to their changing habitat."—Science News Most people are familiar with the famous pre-Columbian civilizations of the Aztecs and Maya of Mexico, but few realize just how advanced were contemporary cultures in the American Southwest. Here lie some of the most remarkable monuments of America's prehistoric past, such as Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. Ten thousand years ago, humans first colonized this seemingly inhospitable landscape with its scorching hot deserts and upland areas that drop below freezing even during the early summer months. The initial hunter-gatherer bands gradually adapted to become sedentary village groups. The high point of Southwestern civilization was reached with the emergence of cultures known as Anasazi, Hohokam, and Mogollon in the first millennium AD. Interweaving the latest archaeological evidence with early first-person accounts, Stephen Plog explains the rise and mysterious fall of Southwestern cultures. For this revised edition, he discusses new research and its implications for our understanding of the prehistoric Southwest. As he concludes, the Southwest is still home to vibrant Native American communities who carry on many of the old traditions.
The Chaco Meridian
Author: Stephen H. Lekson
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 1999-03-24
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0759117373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLekson's ground-breaking synthesis of 500 years of Southwestern prehistory—with its explanation of phenomena as diverse as the Great North Road, macaw feathers, Pueblo mythology, and the rise of kachina ceremonies—will be of great interest to all those concerned with the prehistory and history of the American Southwest.
