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Located in Albuquerque's south valley, Atrisco is a vibrant community that predates the city, harking back to a land grant awarded in 1692. Joseph P. Sánchez explores the evolution of this parcel over the four centuries since the first Spanish settlers arrived. He tracks its transformation from an individual to a community grant, peeling away the layers of historical events that have made Atrisco the last piece of undeveloped real estate in a ...

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The arrival of Spaniards in 1769 served as a defining moment for California's future. They described the First Peoples and their cultures and provided a window into the evolution of California's Camino Real. In an effort to establish the Camino Real de California as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Joseph P. Sánchez explores the rich history of the path running from San Diego to San Francisco in this significant study. While records capture the s...

Excerpt from The Spanish Black Legend/La Leyenda Negra Española: Origins of Anti-Hispanic Stereotype/Orígenes De Los Estereotipos AntihispánicosLike other minorities who have suffered discrimination, Hispanics have had to struggle for their place in our democratic society. Democracy is an ideal, and each generation must defend and define it so that inclusion, not exclusion, is assured. In the case of Hispanics, negative stereotypes have impede...

Excerpt from The Spanish Black Legend/La Leyenda Negra Española: Origins of Anti-Hispanic Stereotype/Orígenes De Los Estereotipos AntihispánicosLike other minorities who have suffered discrimination, Hispanics have had to struggle for their place in our democratic society. Democracy is an ideal, and each generation must defend and define it so that inclusion, not exclusion, is assured. In the case of Hispanics, negative stereotypes have impede...

Excerpt from Spanish Colonial Research Center, Vol. 3: Computerized Index Of Spanish Colonial DocumentsRecord Number Work Title Correspondence of Giron's role in the cap ture of Movila, 1780. Noticia of promotion, 1780.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art ...

Excerpt from Spanish Colonial Research Center, Vol. 3: Computerized Index Of Spanish Colonial DocumentsRecord Number Work Title Correspondence of Giron's role in the cap ture of Movila, 1780. Noticia of promotion, 1780.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art ...

Excerpt from Spanish Colonial Research Center Computerized Index of Spanish Colonial Documents, Vol. 2Oja de servicio for Antonio Godoy, 1790. Oja de servicio for Antonio Godoy, 1790. Oja de servicio for Joseph Herrera, 1790.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-th...

Excerpt from Spanish Colonial Research Center Computerized Index of Spanish Colonial Documents, Vol. 2Oja de servicio for Antonio Godoy, 1790. Oja de servicio for Antonio Godoy, 1790. Oja de servicio for Joseph Herrera, 1790.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-th...

Excerpt from Biografia Colombina, 1492-1990: Books, Articles, and Other Publication on the Life and Times of Christopher ColumbusBy the time of his death in 1506, Colon's petitions to the Crown remained unresolved, and he had fallen into disfavor. Finally, in 1508, Diego Colon, his son, initiated a lawsuit against the Crown and entered into a long legal battle that lasted twenty-eight years and ended in a series of compromises. By that time Di...

Excerpt from Biografia Colombina, 1492-1990: Books, Articles, and Other Publication on the Life and Times of Christopher ColumbusBy the time of his death in 1506, Colon's petitions to the Crown remained unresolved, and he had fallen into disfavor. Finally, in 1508, Diego Colon, his son, initiated a lawsuit against the Crown and entered into a long legal battle that lasted twenty-eight years and ended in a series of compromises. By that time Di...

Excerpt from A Selected Bibliography of the Florida-Louisiana Frontier With References to the Caribbean, 1492-1819The European contact with native cultures is the watershed between prehistory and history, for it signals a common heritage shared by all Americans. Clearly, the common history of the United States and Latin America is reinforced by a pan-american heritage that began long before Europeans set foot on the Western Hemisphere. Our Ame...

Excerpt from A Selected Bibliography of the Florida-Louisiana Frontier With References to the Caribbean, 1492-1819The European contact with native cultures is the watershed between prehistory and history, for it signals a common heritage shared by all Americans. Clearly, the common history of the United States and Latin America is reinforced by a pan-american heritage that began long before Europeans set foot on the Western Hemisphere. Our Ame...

he history of Historic Route 66 is much more than a line on a map, it is about the heritage of a people who lived along it. The essays in this book narrate the history of how the portion of Highway 66 through New Mexico came to be, but they also tell about the people who used it as a life line for medical purposes, foodstuffs, and commerce as well as for the transport of livestock and things. Theirs are the human-interest stories that shaped t...

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro is the earliest Euro-American trade route in the United States. Tying Spain's colonial capitol at Mexico City to its northern frontier in distant New Mexico, the route spans three centuries, two countries, and 1, 600 miles. El Camino Real was blazed atop a network of footpaths that connected Mexico's ancient cultures with the equally ancient cultures of the interior West. El Camino Real began in Mexico City. As...

This first complete history of New Mexico in more than thirty years begins with the prehistoric cultures of the earliest inhabitants. The authors then trace the state's growth from the arrival of Spanish explorers and colonizers in the sixteenth century to the centennial of statehood in 2012. Most historians have made the territory's admission to the Union in 1912 as the starting point for the state's modernization. As this book shows, however...

Early Hispanic Colorado 1678-1900 adds to our national story, sharing the history of early Hispanics from both Mexico and Spain as well as regional Native American tribes. The early history of Hispanic Colorado recognizes a people who have heroically survived nearly two hundred years of accelerated cultural change, beginning in 1848. It is about a people who successfully learned to navigate the legal systems of Spain, Mexico, and the United St...

Forged from Native American pathways, the Camino Real de los Tejas and its variants became an important transportation corridor during the Spanish Colonial period of Texas. Following the explorations of Alonso de León, between 1686 and 1690, Spanish missionaries and soldiers began the earliest European settlements in Texas. Mexican Territorial and early Anglo-American period immigrants to Texas also contributed much information about its peopl...

Explores forgotten pathways through Montezuma Canyon in southeastern Arizona and provides an essential history of the southern Huachuca Mountains. Sánchez is the foremost historian of the area, and he shifts through and decodes a number of key Spanish and English language documents from different archives that tell the story of an historical drama of epic proportions.

How an Hispano community maintained its identity over four centuries