The Spanish Frontier in North America: The Brief Edition

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Yale University Press, Mar 17, 2009 - History - 320 pages

A compact synthesis of David J. Weber’s prize-winning history of colonial Spanish North America, from the first Spanish-Indian contact through Spain’s gradual retreat

Praise for the previous edition:

"I cannot imagine a single book giving a more comprehensive and balanced study of Spain's presence in North America."—Louis Kleber, History Today

"For readers seeking to understand the larger meaning of the Spanish heritage in North America, Weber's vivid narrative is a must. This is social and cultural history at its best."—Howard R. Lamar, Yale University

"A superb study."—Choice

"[A] deeply researched and splendidly conceived and written survey."—Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., New York Times Book Review

 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Worlds Apart
13
2 First Encounters
26
Florida and New Mexico
48
4 Conquistadors of the Spirit
69
5 Exploitation Contention and Rebellion
90
To Texas the Gulf Coast and the High Plains
109
7 Commercial Rivalry Stagnation and the Fortunes of War
130
8 Indian Raiders and the Reorganization of Frontier Defenses
153
New California to the Floridas
176
The Empire Lost
199
11 Frontiers and Frontier Peoples Transformed
221
12 The Spanish Legacy and the Historical Imagination
243
For Further Reading
265
Index
279
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About the author (2009)

David J. Weber is Robert and Nancy Dedman Professor of History and director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. Spain and Mexico have given him the highest awards they bestow on foreigners and the American Academy of Arts has elected him to membership. His previous books include the award-winning The Mexican Frontier, 1821–1846 and Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. He lives in Dallas and in Ramah, NM.

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