The Penitente Brotherhood
Author: Michael P. Carroll
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002-11-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801870552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a result, Carroll concludes, Penitente membership facilitated the rise of the modernin New Mexico and--however unintentionally--made it that much easier, after the territory's annexation by the United States, for the Anglo legal system to dispossess Hispanos of their land.