The Spanish Frontier in North America

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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 farms, ranches, and towns to reconstruct a familiar Iberian world. This engagingly written and well-illustrated book presents an up-to-date overview of the Spanish colonial period in North America. It provides a sweeping account not only of the Spaniards' impact on the lives, institutions, and environments of the native peoples but also of the effect of native North Americans on the societies and cultures of the Spanish settlers. With apt quotations and colorful detail, David J. Weber evokes the dramatic era of the first Spanish-Indian contact in North America, describes the establishment, expansion, and retraction of the Spanish frontier, and recounts the forging of a Hispanic empire that ranged from Florida to California. Weber refutes the common assumption that while the English and French came to the New World to settle or engage in honest trade, the Spaniards came simply to plunder. The Spanish missionaries, soldiers, and traders who lived in America were influenced by diverse motives, and Weber shows that their behavior must be viewed in the context of their own time and within their own frame of reference. Throughout his book Weber deals with many other interesting issues, including the difference between English, French, and Spanish treatment of Indians, the social and economic integration of Indian women into Hispanic society, and the reasons why Spanish communities in North America failed to develop at the rate that the English settlements did. His magisterial work broadens our understanding of the American past by illuminating a neglected but integral part of the nation's heritage.

Winner of the 1993 Western Heritage Award given by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, here is a definitive history of the Spanish colonial period in North America. Authoritative and colorful, the volume focuses on both the Spaniards' impact on Native Americans and the effect of North Americans on Spanish settlers. "Splendid."--New York Times Book Review.

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Weber presents a balanced and thorough history of Spanish exploration and settlement from Ponce de Leon's landing in 1513 to the end of Spain's North American empire in 1821. Most of the book is devoted to Spain's political and military activities in North America. One chapter traces the social history of Spaniards in the New World while the last chapter explores history's verdict of Spain's treatment of colonists and Indians. Illustrations, including photographs and line drawings, add little to the text, but the numerous maps are useful. There are extensive footnotes and a comprehensive bibliography. Recommended for academic libraries or public libraries with large American history collections. Index not seen.-- Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist . P.L., Metamora
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780300059175
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication date: 7/28/1994
  • Series: The Lamar Series in Western History
  • Pages: 602
  • Product dimensions: 6.91 (w) x 9.94 (h) x 1.28 (d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Spanish Names and Words
Introduction 1
1 Worlds Apart 14
2 First Encounters 30
3 Foundations of Empire: Florida and New Mexico 60
4 Conquistadores of the Spirit 92
5 Exploitation, Contention, and Rebellion 122
6 Imperial Rivalry and Strategic Expansion: Texas, the Gulf Coast, and the High Plains 147
7 Commercial Rivalry, Stagnation, and the Fortunes of War 172
8 Indian Raiders and the Reorganization of Frontier Defenses 204
9 Forging a Transcontinental Empire: New California to the Floridas 236
10 Improvisations and Retreats: The Empire Lost 271
11 Frontiers and Frontier Peoples Transformed 302
12 The Spanish Legacy and the Historical Imagination 335
Abbreviations 361
Notes 363
Select Bibliography 491
Index 555
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