América : the epic story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898 / Robert Goodwin.
Goodwin, Robert, 1969- author.
2019
E188 .G63 2019 (Mapit)
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Title América : the epic story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898 / Robert Goodwin.
Author Goodwin, Robert, 1969- author.
ISBN 9781632867223 (hardcover)
1632867222 (hardcover)
Published New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2019.
Language English
Description xxii, 519 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Call Number E188 .G63 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 979/.01
Summary "An epic history of the Spanish empire in North America from 1493 to 1898 by Robert Goodwin, author of Spain: The Centre of the World. At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus's great voyage of discovery, in 1492, he claimed Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for Spain. For the next three hundred years, thousands of proud Spanish conquistadors and their largely forgotten Mexican allies went in search of glory and riches from Florida to California. Many died, few triumphed. Some were cruel, some were curious, some were kind. Missionaries and priests yearned to harvest Indian souls for God through baptism and Christian teaching. Theirs was a frontier world which Spain struggled to control in the face of Indian resistance and competition from France, Britain, and finally the United States. In the 1800s, Spain lost it all. Goodwin tells this history through the lives of the people who made it happen and the literature and art with which they celebrated their successes and mourned their failures. He weaves an epic tapestry from these intimate biographies of explorers and conquerors, like Columbus and Coronado, but also lesser known characters, like the powerful Gálvez family who gave invaluable and largely forgotten support to the American Patriots during the Revolutionary War; the great Pueblo leader Popay; and Esteban, the first documented African American. Like characters in a great play or a novel, Goodwin's protagonists walk the stage of history with heroism and brio and much tragedy"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-450) and index.
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"War of blood and fire" : Puerto Rico
Realms of gold : Mexico
Fountain of eternal youth : La Florida
Amazon women & Californian dreams : Baja California
"Naked and barefoot" : the continent crossed
The seven cities of Cíbola : New Mexico
An Inca's tale, La Florida : the deep south
"Hang all the Lutherans" : the Atlantic Coast
Poetry & conquest : New Mexico
God & government : New Mexico
Po'pay's Pueblo revolt : New Mexico
Manhunt beyond the Rio Grande : Texas
Padre Kino, the Jesuit southwest : Arizona
Love & the Comanche Dawn : Texas
Los Anza & the Apaches : el Gran Norte
Los Gálvez & el Gran Norte : California & Sonora
Junípero Serra, paradise gained : California
Hard road to paradise : Arizona & California
Half a continent is Spanish : Louisiana & Alaska
The governors : Louisiana & New Mexico
"Gálvez, Spanish hero of the American Revolution" : the deep south
Apogee & disaster : Canada & Spain
Mexican independence : New Spain & México
Nemesis, Andrew Jackson : Florida
The Alamo & San Jacinto : Texas
The Mexican-American War : México
Epilogue: Puerto Rico, 1898.

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