Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542: They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects

by Richard Flint (Editor), Shirley Cushing Flint (Editor)

Overview

This volume is the first annotated, dual-language edition of thirty-four original documents from the Coronado expedition. Using the latest historical, archaeological, geographical, and linguistic research, historians and paleographers Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint make available accurate transcriptions and modern English translations of the documents, including seven never before published and seven others never before available in English. The volume includes a general introduction and explanatory notes at the beginning of each document.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826351357
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	04/16/2012
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	760
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Richard Flint is the author of No Settlement, No Conquest: A History of the Coronado Entrada, the coauthor of A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective, and the coeditor of The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years (all from UNM Press).

ShirleyCushingFlintistheauthorofNoMereShadows:FacesofWidowhoodinEarlyColonialMexico,thecoauthorofAMostSplendidCompany:TheCoronadoExpeditioninGlobalPerspective,andthecoeditorofTheCoronadoExpedition:FromtheDistanceof460Years(allfromUNMPress).
Shirley Cushing Flint is the author of No Mere Shadows: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico, the coauthor of A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective, and the coeditor of The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years (all from UNM Press).

Editorial Reviews

" . . . a magnificent volume of documents that any person studying the era will be glad to own . . . an astounding achievement, useful in many ways . . . Anyone who is interested in the history of the Southwest, should read this collection."

Southwestern Historical Quarterly