Author: Richard W. Etulain
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780826334725
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The life stories of many individuals are woven together to tell the history of the American West from the earliest days of westward expansion to the twentieth century.
Author: Irving Berdine Richman
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1911
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Virginia M. Bouvier
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2004-08
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780816524464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studies of the Spanish conquest in the Americas traditionally have explained European-Indian encounters in terms of such factors as geography, timing, and the charisma of individual conquistadores. Yet by reconsidering this history from the perspective of gender roles and relations, we see that gender ideology was a key ingredient in the glue that held the conquest together and in turn shaped indigenous behavior toward the conquerors. This book tells the hidden story of women during the missionization of California. It shows what it was like for women to live and work on that frontierÑand how race, religion, age, and ethnicity shaped female experiences. It explores the suppression of women's experiences and cultural resistance to domination, and reveals the many codes of silence regarding the use of force at the missions, the treatment of women, indigenous ceremonies, sexuality, and dreams. Virginia Bouvier has combed a vast array of sourcesÑ including mission records, journals of explorers and missionaries, novels of chivalry, and oral historiesÑ and has discovered that female participation in the colonization of California was greater and earlier than most historians have recognized. Viewing the conquest through the prism of gender, Bouvier gives new meaning to the settling of new lands and attempts to convert indigenous peoples. By analyzing the participation of womenÑ both Hispanic and IndianÑ in the maintenance of or resistance to the mission system, Bouvier restores them to the narrative of the conquest, colonization, and evangelization of California. And by bringing these voices into the chorus of history, she creates new harmonies and dissonances that alter and enhance our understanding of both the experience and meaning of conquest.
Author: H.E. Bolton
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published: 1930
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 5881632745
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Anza's California expeditions. Volume 3. The San Francisco colony. Diaries of anza, font's and eixarch, and narratives by Palou and Moraga. Translated from the original Spanish manuscript and edited by Herbert Eugene Bolton.
Author: Jeanne Farr McDonnell
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2008-09-15
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780816525874
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Juana Briones de Miranda lived an unusual life. She was one of the first residents of what is now San Francisco, then named Yebra Buena (Good Herb), reportedly after a medicinal tea she concocted. She was among the few women in California of her time to own property in her own name, and she proved to be a skilled farmer, rancher, and businesswoman. In retelling her story, McDonnell also retells the history of nineteenth-century California from the perspective of this surprising woman. -- P. [4] of Cover.
Author: Zephyrin Engelhardt
Publisher:
Published: 1912
Total Pages: 798
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Comprehensive history of the Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries in Lower California and of the Franciscans in Upper California.