No Settlement, No Conquest
A History of the Coronado Entrada
Between 1539 and 1542, two thousand indigenous Mexicans, led by Spanish explorers, made an armed reconnaissance of what is now the American Southwest. The Spaniards' goal was to seize control of the people of the region and convert them to the religion, economy, and way of life of sixteenth-century Spain. The new followers were expected to recognize don Francisco Vázquez de Coronado as their leader. The area's unfamiliar terrain and hostile natives doomed the expedition. The surviving Spaniards returned to Nueva España, disillusioned and heavily in debt with a trail of destruction left in their wake that would set the stage for Spain's confli…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8263-4364-2
- EAN: 9780826343642
- Produktnummer: 34255750
- Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 376 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'466 KB
Über den Autor
Richard Flint is the coeditor of The Coronado Expedition:From the Distance of 460 Years, and The Latest Word from 1540: Peoples, Places, and Portrayals of the Coronado Expedition and the author of Great Cruelties Have Been Reported: The 1544 Investigation of the Coronado Expedition (all UNM Press).
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