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Hispanics in the United States
History, Hispanic Heritage,
Literature, The Arts, Reference, Politics, Economics
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Specifications: 48
black-and-white photographs and line drawings. 34 maps. Indexes. Appendixes.
Suggestions for further reading. Chronology. 416 Pages. 8 1/2 x 11.
Reviews:
"The Hispanic Presence in North America: From 1492 to Today, Updated
Edition published by Facts On File, studies the role in the
Revolutionary War and its legacy in American culture, economy and law.
The appendixes that compromise the second half of this volume have been
extensively revised and expanded, provided a ready reference source of both
historical facts and information about Hispanic culture in America today."
- Curriculum Administrator
Praise for the previous edition: "This excellent work rectifies the
misunderstandings of those who think that American history begins with the
Pilgrims." - School Library Journal
"A useful contribution that serves as a corrective to standard American
accounts." - Library Journal
Summary:
Over 20,000 Copies of the previous edition sold.
Hispanic traditions have helped shape our national character for nearly 500
years and continue to make distinctive contributions to our wide-ranging
American culture. This unique guide studies the role of Spanish explorers,
missionaries, and settlers in the United States from the 15th century.
The first half of the book provides a concise overview of the Spanish discovery
and influence in the New World, with an emphasis on early exploration and
colonization, Spain's role in the Revolutionary War, and its legacy in American
culture, economy, and law. A state-by-state survey reveals, not only the
Hispanic contribution to such states as Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico,
and California, but also the lesser-known exploits of the Spanish in New
England, the mid-Atlantic states, Alaska, and Hawaii. The appendixes that
compose the second half of this volume have been extensively revised and
expanded, providing a ready reference source of both historical facts and useful
information about Hispanic culture in America today, including:
• Spanish missions, forts, and presidios in the United States
• Spanish governors in the United States
• Historical societies
• Universities with a special interest in Hispanic studies
• Hispanic associations
• Holidays and festivals
• Periodicals that publish in Spanish
• Radio and television stations that broadcast in Spanish
• Plus, a new section on important dates in the history of Hispanic presence
in the United States.
Spain
in America
The Origins of Hispanism in the
United States
Setting
aside the pastiche of bullfighters and flamenco dancers that has dominated the
U.S. image of Spain for more than a century, this innovative volume uncovers the
roots of Spanish studies to explain why the diversity, vitality, and complexity
of Spanish history and culture have been reduced in U.S. accounts to the
equivalent of a tourist brochure.
Spurred
by the complex colonial relations between the United States and Spain, the new
field of Spanish studies offered a way for the young country to reflect a
positive image of itself as a democracy, in contrast with perceived Spanish
intolerance and closure. Spain in America investigates the political and
historical forces behind this duality, surveying the work of the major
nineteenth-century U.S. Hispanists in the fields of history, art history,
literature, and music.
A
distinguished panel of contributors offers fresh examinations of the role of
U.S. writers, especially Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Long-fellow, in
crafting a wildly romantic vision of Spain. They examine the views of such
scholars as William H. Prescott and George Ticknor, who contrasted the
"failure" of Spanish history with U.S. exception-alism. Also included
are profiles of the philanthropist Archer Mitchell Huntington and the pioneering
art historians Georgiana Goddard King and Arthur Kingsley Porter.
Providing a much-needed
look at the development and history of Hispanism, Spain in America opens
the way toward confronting and modifying reductive views of Spain that are
frozen in another time.
Supported by a grant
from the Program for Cultural Cooperative between Spanish's Ministry of
Education, Culture, and Sports and United States Universities
Richard
L. Kagan, a
professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of Students
and Society in Early Modern Spain, Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and
Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain, and other books.
Published: 2002
272 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 17 photographs.
Publisher: Univesity of Illinois Press
Cloth, ISBN 0-252-02724-8. $42.50
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Volume I: From European Contact to the U.S.-Mexican War, Prehistory-1848 Volume II: From the California Gold Rush to Today, 1949-Present Set Features: - 288 pages in 2 volumes - 7 x 10 - 2-color interior - 100 Photopgraphs - 40 Maps, Charts, and Graphs - Timelines - Primary documents - Glossary - Index. Curriculum Themes: - Hispanic peoples coming to America - History of the Hispanic civil rights movement - Hispanic contributions to American culture - Hispanic Americans today (struggles & contributions). Reading Level: 6th-8th Grade
Table of Contents:
VOLUME ONE
Introduction
The Roots of Hispanic America: Spain, Africa, and Native America,
Prehistory to 1491
The Spanish Empire: Spain in the Americas, 1492-1775
La Independencia: Independence in Hispanic America, 1776-1823
Manifest Destiny: The Texan Revolution and the U.S.-Mexican War,
1824-1848
Glossary
For More Information
Bibliography
Index
VOLUME TWO
Introduction
Westward and Southward: Hispanic Americans and U.S. Expansion, 1849-1898
Troubled Times: Hispanic Americans in World Wars and Depression,
1899-1945
La Causa: Hispanic Americans and Civil Rights, 1946-1975
Hispanic America Today, 1976-present
Glossary
For More Information
Bibliography
Index
Subject Category: Multicultural
Studies
Sub-Category: Latino/Hispanic
Studies
LC Card Number: 2003044824
LCC Class: E184
Dewey Class: 973
SPANISH-AMERICAN
WAR, UPDATED EDITION
Michael Golay
Specifications: 50
black-and-white photographs. 7 maps. Index. Bibliography. Glossary. 176
Pages. 6 x 9.
Summary:
Praise for the previous edition:
"Succinctly delineating the history of the region as well as international
politics of the time, this is a good overview...There are plenty of good
photographs and maps to spark the reader's interest...Overall a solid entry in
the series America at War."—Voice Of Youth Advocates
Spanish-American War, Updated Edition opens with a riveting account of
the mysterious explosion of the USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor,
which spurred a surge of anti-Spanish sentiment among Americans. Author Michael
Golay then gives a lively account of the events leading to war and of the
ensuing battles fought on land and sea. The book ends with a thought-provoking
assessment of this important conflict from which the United States emerged as a
major player on the world stage. New box features give detailed coverage of such
topics as the proposed attack on mainland Spain and the development of the
Anti-Imperialist League, led by Mark Twain.
Coverage includes:
Since their first arrival in the New World, the experiences of individual ethnic groups have often been lost in the larger story of American history. This atlas uses a wide arrangement of visual tools to offer a detailed overview of the experiences and important events surrounding Americans of Hispanic decent. Maps, photographs, graphs, charts, chronologies, and boxed features help explore the cultural, historical, political, and social histories of this major group of people. Coverage also includes key events and issues in the groups’ homelands, especially those factors that influenced their movements to the United States.
Spain and the
Independence of the United States: An Intrinsic Gift
Thomas E. Chávez
The role of Spain in the
birth of the United States is a little known and little understood aspect of
U.S. independence. Through actual fighting, provision of supplies, and money,
Spain helped the young British colonies succeed in becoming an independent
nation. Soldiers were recruited from all over the Spanish empire, from Spain
itself and from throughout Spanish America. Many died fighting British soldiers
and their allies in Central America, the Caribbean, along the Mississippi River
from New Orleans to St. Louis and as far north as Michigan, along the Gulf Coast
to Mobile and Pensacola, as well as in Europe.
Based on primary research in the archives of Spain, this book is about United
States history at its very inception, placing the war in its broadest
international context. In short, the information in this book should provide a
clearer understanding of the independence of the United States, correct a
longstanding omission in its history, and enrich its patrimony. It will appeal
to anyone interested in the history of the Revolutionary War and in Spain's role
in the development of the Americas.
"Based on archival
materials in Spain and the US as well as printed primary and numerous secondary
resources, this volume deserves reading by historians of late-18th-century
Spain, Spanish America, and the American Revolution."--Choice
"There may be similar coverage of this subject somewhere out there, but
until you find it, Tom Chavez's extensively researched work will do
nicely."--Southwest BookViews
Dr. Thomas E. Chávez, for twenty years Director of the Palace of the Governors
in Santa Fe, is currently Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center in
Albuquerque.
6 x 9 330 pages 22
color photos, 22 halftones, 14 maps
University of New Mexico Press
0-8263-2793-1 $29.95 ( hardcover )
Published: 2002
Intimate
Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California
Albert L. Hurtado
Foreword by William Cronon, Howard R. Lamar, Martin Ridge, and
David J. Weber
This book reveals how
powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history of
the American frontier from the 1760s to the 1850s. Looking at California under
three flags--those of Spain, Mexico, and the United States--Hurtado resurrects
daily life in the missions, at mining camps, on overland trails and sea
journeys, and in San Francisco. In these settings Hurtado explores courtship,
marriage, reproduction, and family life as a way to understand how men and
women--whether Native American, Anglo American, Hispanic, Chinese, or of mixed
blood--fit into or reshaped the roles and identities set by their race and
gender.
Hurtado introduces two themes in delineating his intimate frontiers. One was
a libertine California, and some of its delights were heartily described early
in the 1850s: "[Gold] dust was plentier than pleasure, pleasure more
enticing than virtue. Fortune was the horse, youth in the saddle, dissipation
the track, and desire the spur." Not all the times were good or giddy, and
in the tragedy of a teenage domestic who died in a botched abortion or a
brutalized Indian woman we see the seamy underside of gender relations on the
frontier. The other theme explored is the reaction of citizens who abhorred the
loss of moral standards and sought to suppress excess. Their efforts included
imposing all the stabilizing customs of whichever society dominated
California--during the Hispanic period,arranged marriages and concern for family
honor were the norm; among the Anglos, laws regulated prostitution,missionaries
railed against vices, and "proper" women were brought in to help
"civilize" the frontier.
" . . . a sensitive,
thoughtful, and thought-provoking piece of scholarship that examines stories
about people living in California . . . Intimate Frontiers is an
important work . . ." --Southern California Quarterly
". . . an important contribution to our understanding of the history of
human sexuality within the context of a multicultural society . . . disturbing .
. . provocative . . . Hurtado crafts a new dimension to the word
‘frontier.'" --The Journal of American History
"Intimate Frontiers . . . does a masterful job of explaining in
clear, jargon-free language, the theoretical keystones of contemporary gender
scholarship. . . . exceptional, sensational, and unrelentingly grim." --Western
Historical Quarterly
"A must-read for scholars of women and gender in the West and for
Borderlanders. Albert L. Hurtado's Intimate Frontiers is a fast-paced yet
dense study, filled with interesting anecdotes, memorable characters, and
fascinating gender analysis. Its short length, simultaneously topical and
chronological chapters, and interesting use of gender theory make it ideal for
classroom use." --New Mexico Historical Review
Albert L. Hurtado is the Travis Professor of Modern American History at the University of Oklahoma and the author of award-winning studies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century California.
6 x 9 203 pages 25
halftones
0-8263-1953-X $39.95 ( hardcover )
0-8263-1954-8 $21.95 ( paperback )
University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1999
San Antonio
de Béxar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier
Jesús F. de la Teja
This award-winning history, now available in paperback, explores
eighteenth-century San Antonio de Béxar, a community on the periphery of
Spain's North American frontier. From this struggling settlement eventually
developed modern San Antonio, Texas. In spite of isolation and neglect, many of
the settlers, veterans of frontier colonies farther south, founded San Antonio
on centuries-old institutions. Although the colonists often feuded with one
another in the early years, frontier political and economic forces molded them
into a single community by the end of the eighteenth century.
Crisp prose, vivid descriptions, and strong archival documentation make this community study accessible to students and of interest to scholars.
"An excellent example
of the issues that social historians find important in frontier New Spain. . . .
de la Teja has demonstrated beyond question that there was nothing static about
frontier society."--Choice
Jesús F. de la Teja, Ph.D. is professor of history at Southwest Texas State
University, San Marcos.
6 x 9 240 pages 18 halftones, 3 maps
0-8263-1751-0 $22.95 ( paperback )
University of New Mexico Press
The Spanish
Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest
Herbert E. Bolton
Introduction by Albert L. Hurtado
First published in 1921 and now available only from UNM Press, this classic monograph argues Anglophilic American history should give equal weight to Spain, which occupied North America longer than any other European colonial power and whose social and cultural legacy was firmly imprinted on North America. In beautiful narrative prose, Bolton recounts the Spanish exploration and the permanent settlement of Old Florida, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, and California. Albert L. Hurtado tells the fascinating story of the writing and editing of The Spanish Borderlands and places the volume in historiographical context.
" . . . a marvelous
text . . . There are wild and marvelous tales of treasure indeed, but also of a
race of men with tails, and tribes whose members stood eight feet tall and had
extra fingers in each hand." --Courier Publications
" . . . The Spanish Borderlands is a broad synthesis of Spanish influences
on North America . . . It belongs on every New Mexico bookshelf." --Ayer
Y Hoy
" . . . this classic monograph is the cornerstone of Spanish Borderlands
historical research." --The Forth Worth Stockyards Gazette
"Any student of the so-called American expansion effort as well as any
interested in the Hispanic tradition in the United States would do well to
consult Father Bannon's excellent survey."--The Social Studies
6 x 9 368 pages 9
illustrations, 1 map
0-8263-1681-6 $26.95 ( paperback )
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