New Spain's far northern frontier essays on Spain in the American West, 1540-1821
Edited by david J. Weber
- Albuquerque, New Mexico University of New Mexico Press 1979
- 321 p.
Includes Index
Relevance: Donald E. Worcester -- [1.] The significance of the Spanish borderlands to the United States / George P. Hammond -- [2.] Exploration: Donald C. Cutter -- [3.] The search for the fabulous in the settlement of the Southwest / Herbert Eugene Bolton -- [4.] Spanish scientific exploration along the Pacific coast / Odie B. Faulk -- [5.] Institutions: Sandra L. Myres -- [6.] The mission as a frontier institution in the Spanish American colonies / Marc Simmons -- [7.] The Presidio : fortress or farce? / Manuel Patricio Servin -- [8.] The ranching frontier : Spanish institutional backgrounds of Plains cattle industry / Alicia Vidaurreta Tjarks -- [9.] Settlement patterns and village plans in colonial New Mexico / C. Alan Hutchinson -- Society: Silvio Zavala -- California's Hispanic heritage: a view into the Spanish myth / Luis Navarro Garcia (translated by Elizabeth Gard and David J. Weber) -- Comparative demographic analysis of Texas, 1777-1793 / Joseph F. Park -- Frontier influences: Albert H. Schroeder -- The California frontier / George Harwood Phillips -- The frontiers of Hispanic America / William Wroth -- Eighteenth-century changes: John L. Kessell -- The north of New Spain as a political problem in the eighteenth century / David J. Weber. Spanish Indian policy in northern Mexico, 1765-1810 / Indians as actors: Shifting for survival in the Spanish Southwest / Indians and the breakdown of the Spanish mission system in California / Cultural tradition: The flowering and decline of the New Mexican Santero: 1780-1900 / More relevance: Spaniards, environment, and the Pepsi generation / "Scarce more than apes": historical roots of Anglo-American stereotypes of Mexicans /