Missions of Southern California

by James Osborne

Overview

Touring south to north, from San Diego through Santa Barbara County, this unique compendium takes the reader through the Southern California Mission System as portrayed on vintage postcards. The book elaborates on the missions' myriad functions along the coastal El Camino Real through several centuries as not only isolated centers of civilization in the wilderness and altars of Catholic faith, but also as incursions of empire and politics and the means to convert Native American tribespeople to Christianity. While the Missions San Gabriel and San Juan Capistrano fittingly receive ample coverage herein, this book covers the region's nine major missions as well as outlying chapels, or "asistencias."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738547404
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	08/08/2007
Series:	Postcard History Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

In this retrospective, author James Osborne selected images from his large collection of mission postcards. An instructor at El Camino College, he is the author of previous publications on his hometown of Lawndale, California, including that city's entry in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series.