Architecture
& Urbanization of Colonial Central AmericaVol. 2--A Geographical Gazetteer of Primary Documentary, Literary and Visual Sources
Sidney David Markman.
Arizona State University Center for Latin American Studies Press
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Architecture
& Urbanization of Colonial Central America
Vol. 2--A Geographical Gazetteer of Primary Documentary,
Literary and Visual Sources
Sidney David Markman.
Arizona State University Center for Latin American Studies Press
Unique in the field of research on colonial Central America and its connections with Spain, this two-volume work which focuses on the former Reino de Guatemala prior to independence from Spain constitutes a compendium of data drawn from the Archivo General de Centro Am‚rica in Guatemala City, the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, the Real Palacio and Archivo Histórico Nacional in Madrid and the colonial archives in Mexico City. Text in English and Spanish.
Architecture & Urbanization of Colonial Central America
Vol. 1--Selected Primary
Documentary & Literary Sources
Sidney David Markman.
Arizona State University Center for Latin American Studies Press
No Short Journeys
The Interplay of Cultures in the History and Literature of the
Borderlands
Cecil Robinson.
"These thirteen essays comprise a richly patterned 'quilt,' expertly
addressing the influence of Mexico and Latin and South America upon the North
American imagination. . . . Cecil Robinson's impressive breadth of expertise,
his fascinating interpretations, make this collection of essays invaluable
regional reading. The bibliography alone is a treasure--a gift from a man whose
life's work was to form a bridge of humanistic understanding between the two
primary cultures of the New World."--El Palacio
Potosí
Colonial Treasures and the Bolivian City of Silver
Pedro Querejazu and Elizabeth Ferrer.
Americas Society
Founded in 1545, the Bolivian city of Potosí's importance as a great silver mining center resulted in its emergence as an artistic center for painting, sculpture, and silverwork. By the year 1600, it had become the largest city in the Americas, but as its mines yielded diminishing wealth the city slowly declined. Although little known outside of Bolivia today, it was recognized by UNESCO in 1985 as a World Heritage Site.
This book represents the first exhibition ever to present the artistic achievements of Potosí in the context of its complex and unique cultural history. It seeks to illuminate the fascinating story of Potosí by presenting magnificent works of art created in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Potosí's sophisticated artistic schools flourished. Lavishly illustrated essays relate the city's rich heritage in architecture, painting, wooden sculpture, and silver, while a section of more than fifty color plates captures some of the most magnificent representations of both religious and secular art forms. The text appears in both English and Spanish.
Contested
Ground
Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of
the Spanish Empire
Donna J. Guy and Thomas E. Sheridan, eds.
"Specialists in either 'frontier' will learn much about the other from these excellent comparative histories." --Pacific Historical Review
The Spanish empire in the Americas spanned two continents and a vast diversity of peoples and landscapes. Yet intriguing parallels characterized conquest, colonization, and indigenous resistance along its northern and southern frontiers, from the role played by Jesuit missions in the subjugation of native peoples to the emergence of livestock industries, with their attendant cowboys and gauchos and threats of Indian raids.
In this book, nine historians, three anthropologists, and one sociologist compare and contrast these fringes of New Spain between 1500 and 1880, showing that in each region the frontier represented contested ground where different cultures and polities clashed in ways heretofore little understood. The contributors reveal similarities in Indian-white relations, military policy, economic development, and social structure; and they show differences in instances such as the emergence of a major urban center in the south and the activities of rival powers.
The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain
A Documentary History, Volume I, 1570-1700
Thomas H. Naylor and Charles W. Polzer, S.J., eds.
"Meets a fundamental need for those working in Spanish colonial history in the Southwest."--Southwest Review
Reports, orders, journals, and letters of military officials trace frontier history through the Chicimeca War and Peace (1576-1606), early rebellions in the Sierra Madre (1601-1618), mid-century challenges and realignment (1640-1660), and northern rebellions and new presidios (1681-1695).
The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain
A Documentary History, Volume Two, Part Two: The Central
Corridor and the Texas Corridor, 1700-1765
Diana Hadley, Thomas H. Naylor, and Mardith K. Schuetz-Miller,
eds.
"This book will be useful for generations of scholars. Researchers will return to it again and again for suggestions of other nuggets to be mined in the future. For the United States and Mexico, there is nothing comparable to the work presented here."--Adan Benevides
Joining an acclaimed multivolume work funded by the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission is a new volume of The
Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain. As the work of
the Documentary Relations of the Southwest project, under the general editorship
of Charles W. Polzer, S.J., the volumes stand alone in their translation and
publication of a wide variety of documents that describe the Spanish exploration
and conquest of what is now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
José
Velásquez
Saga of a Borderland Soldier
Ronald L. Ives.
Southwest Mission Research Center
248 pp. / 6 x 9 / 1989
Paper (0915076101) $8.50s
José Velásquez, 1717-1785, was a common soldier of New Spain whose career was anything but common. A garrison sergeant in the presidio of Loreto, Baja California, Velásquez served as scout on the first—and most important—Spanish entradas into upper California, reconnoitering the advance of the conquistadors as far north as Monterey. On reaching that destination, Velásquez, then in his fifties, was given the charge of delivering his commanding officer's report to Mexico City, an arduous journey on horseback of nearly two thousand miles.
Cartographer and bibliophile Ronald Ives tells Velásquez's story in
fascinating detail, citing sources of contemporary letters, reports, and other
material. His biography is a lasting contribution to the military history of the
Spanish borderlands.
The
Missions of Northern Sonora
A 1935 Field Documentation
Buford L. Pickens, ed.
"Whoever has traveled in the borderlands . . . to visit the missions; whoever is engrossed in the mystique of these places of faith and conquest; and whoever enjoys out-of-the-ordinary books ought to find this in every way an exceptional work." --Christian Century
"This book is a time capsule, indispensable to anyone studying the missions."-- James S. Griffith, author of Beliefs and Holy Places
"The entire work is excellent. . . . The mission drawings will fascinate the public as well as the scholar."--Charles W. Polzer, S.J., author of Kino Guide II
The Spanish missions founded by Padre Eusebio Kino in Sonora, Mexico, during the 1690s and early 1700s are historical as well as architectural marvels. Once self-supporting villages with central churches, the missions stand today as monuments to perseverance in the face of a hostile New World.
Indian Assimilation in the Franciscan Area of Nueva
Vizcaya
William B. Griffen.
Examines the processes of disappearance during the late 16th and 17th centuries--through assimilation or extermination--of the native Indians encountered by Spaniards in present-day Chihuahua, Mexico.
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