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The Spanish Frontier in North America
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David J Weber
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 300 years, Spaniards ranged through the continent building forts, missions and farms, ranches and towns to reconstruct the Iberian world. This illustrated book presents an overview of the Spanish colonial ...
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Midnight Rider
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Kat Martin
She was his captive. He was the one man she was forbidden to have...As soon as the tall, handsome Spaniard leaned down from his stallion to offer her a rose, Caralee McConnell know California held danger. But all too quickly she was forced to deny the heat Ramon de la Guerra had sparked. Determined to please her uncle who had saved her from ...
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Ruled Britannia
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Harry Turtledove
The year is 1597. The Spanish invasion was a success. King Phillip holds the English throne captive while Elizabeth I languishes in the Tower of London. And in the streets of that city, a stranger approaches a young playwright named William Shakespeare and makes him an offer that could change the course of history.
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The decline of the Californios : a social history of the Spanish-speaking Californians,1846-1890.
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Leonard Pitt
This addition to the literature of ethnic minorities deals with the early struggles of the Spanish-speaking peoples of California.
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Captain from Castile
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Samuel Shellabarger
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Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California
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John L Kessell
John L. Kessell's Spain in the Southwest is a fast-paced, abundantly illustrated history of the Spanish colonies that became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. With an eye for human interest, Kessell tells the story of New Spain's vast frontier -- today's American Southwest and Mexican North -- which for two centuries served ...
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The Spanish Prince's Virgin Bride: Billionaires' Brides: Pregnant by Their Princes...
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Sandra Marton
"'I cannot imagine a virgin would return a kiss with such fervor.'" Prince Lucas Reyes is angry. His grandfather is forcing him into marriage with penniless Alyssa McDonough who's pretending she's untouched by any man. But the intense sexual chemistry between them tells him otherwise.--Lucas's fiery royal blood is roused! He'll force Lyssa to go ...
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Artifacts of the Spanish Colonies of Florida and the Caribbean, 1500-1800
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Kathleen A Deagan
This first volume of Kathleen Deagan's two-volume summation of Spanish colonial material culture focuses on a wide variety of ceramics, luxury and utilitarian glassware, tiles, and beads. For this paperback edition, she has updated her text examining artifacts of both European and New World manufacture, and has expanded and updated her ...
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Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
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James F Brooks
This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among Native American and Euroamerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century. Indigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and ...
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Laudonniere & Fort Caroline: History and Documents
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Charles E Bennett, Jerald T Milanich (Foreword by)
America's history was shaped in part by the clash of cultures that took place in the southeastern United States in the 1560s. Indians, French, and Spaniards vied to profit from European attempts to colonize the land Juan Ponce de Leon had named la Florida. Rene de Goulaine de Laudonniere founded a French Huguenot settlement on the St. Johns River ...
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The Mark of Zorro
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Johnston McCulley
"The Mask of Zorro" introduces Zorro, a masked hero who defends the oppressed in Old California. None suspect that Zorro is really Don Diego Vega, the seemingly frivolous caballero.
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Buried Treasures of the American Southwest: Legends of Lost Mines, Hidden Payrolls, and Spanish Gold
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W C Jameson, Wendell E Hall (Illustrator)
The search continues even today. Modern-day counterparts of the Spanish conquistadors and the early 19th-century settlers still cling to the image of El Dorado. Searchers still arrive with little more than their dreams and hopes for the elusive riches.
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Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846
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Rose Marie Beebe (Editor), Robert M Senkewicz (Editor)
Spanish and Mexican California is generally depicted through the journals of sea captains and other visitors. This ground-breaking collection offers another perspective: early California seen through the eyes of those who explored it, colonized it, and settled it in the age before the gold rush. Over sixty selections from letters, journals, ...
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Entrada: The Legacy of Spain and Mexico in the United States
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Bernard L Fontana
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Cousins & Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires
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Jose C Moya
Six and a half million Spaniards immigrated to Argentina from 1850 and 1930, making Buenos Aires the third largest city of Spaniards in the world, after Madrid and Barcelona. The author chronicles this wave of immigration, and offers a unique look at Argentinean cultural history through police records, travel books, poems, popular plays, and songs.
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Spanish Texas, 1519-1821
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Donald E Chipman
Modern Texas, like Mexico, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between Europeans and Indians who contested control over a vast land. Unlike Mexico, however, Texas eventually received the stamp of Anglo-American culture, so that Spanish contributions to present-day Texas tend to be obscured or even unknown. The first edition of ...
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Los Caminos Espanoles en la Florida: 1492-1992
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Ann L Henderson (Editor), Gary R Mormino (Editor), Carlos J Cano (Translator)
Florida served as one of the great meeting grounds of the planet, a place where peoples from Indian America, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe converged. This book features essays in both Spanish and English on the influence of the Spanish in Florida from the first explorers to the latest Hispanic migrations into Miami.
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Colonial Rosary: The Spanish and Indian Missions of California
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Alison Lake
California would be a different place today without the imprint of Spanish culture and the legacy of Indian civilization. The colonial Spanish missions that dot the coast and foothills between Sonoma and San Diego are relics of a past that transformed California's landscape and its people. In a spare and accessible style, "Colonial Rosary" looks ...
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Let's Eat!
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Ana Zamorano
Every day Antonio's mama prepares a wonderful dinner--including such delicious items as chickpea soup, empanadas, sardinas, and roast pollo. But every day Antonio's mother sighs because someone is missing from the table. Will Antonio's entire family ever be together for a meal? Watercolor paintings illustrate the text that includes a glossary of ...
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Let There Be Towns: Spanish Municipal Origins in the American Southwest, 1610-1810
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Donald C. Cutter, Gilbert R. Cruz
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Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico
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John L Kessell
A distinguished historian paints an evenhanded picture of uneasy coexistence
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Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas
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Donald E Chipman, Harriett Denise Joseph, Denise Joseph Harriett
'In my knowledge of Spanish Texas and the Spanish Borderlands, there is no other work that covers the topic of this book...No other book is so comprehensive and deals with so many personalities in one place' - Oakah L. Jones, Historian and Professor Emeritus, Purdue University. The Spanish colonial era in Texas (1528-1821) continues to emerge from ...
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A Suit of Light
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Anne Hebert, Sheila Fischman (Translator)
Anne Hebert's final novel, originally published in French as Un Habit de lumiere, is a story of dangerous dreams come true. Rose-Alba Almevida, her husband Pedro, and her son Miguel live by modest means in a Paris apartment, but each, in their way, dreams of returning home to Spain to reclaim the honor and identity stripped of them by the ...
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The heroic triad; essays in the social energies of three Southwestern cultures.
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Paul Horgan
A beautifully written compact social and cultural history of the peoples of the Southwest. Abridged from the the Pulitzer Prize-winning Great River.
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Coronado's Land: Essays on Daily Life in Colonial New Mexico
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Marc Simmons
At last available in paperback, the twenty-five essays collected here re-create everyday activities of the Hispanic people of colonial northern New Mexico. What people wore, when they shopped, how they amused themselves these are but a few of the commonplace activities considered here. In reconstructing the daily routines of domestic life and work ...
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