The Spanish frontier in North America /
From the Publisher: In 1513, when Ponce de Leon stepped ashore on a beach of what is now Florida, Spain gained its first foothold in North America. For the next three hundred years, Spaniards ranged through the continent building forts to defend strategic places, missions to proselytize Indians, and...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Язык: | английский |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2009.
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| Редактирование: | The brief ed. |
| Серии: | Lamar series in western history.
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| Online-ссылка: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=302230 |
Оглавление:
- List of maps
- Spanish names and words
- Introduction
- 1: Worlds apart
- 2: First encounters
- 3: Foundations of empire: Florida and New Mexico
- 4: Conquistadors of the spirit
- 5: Exploitation, contention, and rebellion
- 6: Imperial rivalry and strategic expansion: to Texas, the Gulf Coast, and the high plains
- 7: Commercial rivalry, stagnation, and the fortunes of war
- 8: Indian raiders and the reorganization of frontier defenses
- 9: Forging a transcontinental empire: new California to the Floridas
- 10: Improvisations and retreats: the empire lost
- 11: Frontiers and frontier peoples transformed
- 12: Spanish legacy and the historical imagination
- For further reading
- Index.