Juan Domínguez de Mendoza

Soldier and Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627-1693

Studies of seventeenth-century New Mexico have largely overlooked the soldiers and frontier settlers who formed the backbone of the colony and laid the foundations of European society in a distant outpost of Spain's North American empire. This book, the final volume in the Coronado ...

Pious imperialism

spanish rule and the cult of saints in Mexico City

This book analyzes Spanish rule and Catholic practice from the consolidation of Spanish control in the Americas in the sixteenth century to the loss of these colonies in the nineteenth century by following the life and afterlife of an accidental martyr, San Felipe de Jésus ...

The economics of politics

Interpreting spanish colonialism

empires, nations, and legends

Offers a compelling examination of how historians in Spain and the Americas have come to understand and write about the Spanish colonial past and its meanings for national presents. Working from a transnational perspective, the book brings together scholars of Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean ...

Embedded symmetries

natural and cultural

The ten participants in this volume explore non-representational patterns from perceptual and cultural perspectives. Archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and psychologists lend their views on how patterns and symmetry are expressed and resonate in a variety of human relationships and institutions. The authors reveal how symmetric ...

The souls of Purgatory

the spiritual diary of a Seventeenth-Century afro-peruvian mystic, Ursula de Jesús

A dictionary of New Mexico and southern Colorado spanish

Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt

identity, meaning, and renewal in the Pueblo world

Latinas

hispanic women in the United States

If history books obscure the important roles played by women of European origin in the United States, how much more invisible are Hispanic women? In correcting this omission, Hedda Garza documents and discusses the major contributions to this country's social and political mosaic for ...

The legal culture on Northern New Spain, 1700-1810

Spanish pathways

readings in the history of Hispanic New Mexico