Alta California: Peoples in Motion, Identities in Formation Volume 2 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520289048)

Spanish California--with its diverse mix of Indians, soldiers, settlers, and missionaries--provides a fascinating site for the investigation of individual and collective identity in colonial America. Through innovative methodologies and extensive archival research, the nine essays in this volume reshape our understanding of how people in the northernmost Spanish Borderlands viewed themselves and remade their worlds. Essays examine Franciscan identity and missionary tactics in Alta California, Sonora, and the Sierra Gorda; Spanish and Mexican settlers' identity as revealed in mission records, family relationships, political affiliations, and genetic origins; and Indian identity as shown in mission orchestras and choral guilds as well as in the life of Pablo Tac, a Luise o who penned his own remembrance of the Spanish conquest of Alta California. The concluding essays examine the identity and historiography of the field of the Spanish Borderlands as it has developed over the last century in North America and Spain.

Author: Steven W. Hackel
ISBN-10: 0520289048
ISBN-13: 9780520289048
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2010
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50d