Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 write by Donald E. Chipman. This book was released on 2010-01-15. Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This revised and expanded edition of the authoritative history of Spanish Texas features significant new discoveries throughout. Modern Texas, like Mexico, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between Europeans and Indians. Unlike Mexico, however, Texas eventually received the stamp of Anglo-American culture, so that Spanish contributions to present-day Texas tend to be obscured or even unknown. Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 undercores the significance of the Spanish period in Texas history. Beginning with an overview of the land and its inhabitants before the arrival of Europeans, it covers major people and events from early exploration to the end of the colonial era. This new edition of Spanish Texas has been extensively revised and expanded to include a wealth of new discoveries. The opening chapter on Texas Indians reveals their high degree of independence from European influence. Other chapters incorporate new information on La Salle's Garcitas Creek colony and French influences in Texas, the destruction of the San Sabá mission and the Spanish punitive expedition to the Red River in the late 1750s, and eighteenth-century Bourbon reforms in the Americas. Drawing on new and original research, the authors shed new light on the experience of women in Spanish Texas across ethnic, racial, and class distinctions, including new revelations about their legal rights on the Texas frontier.
Spanish Texas, 1519-1821
Spanish Texas, 1519-1821 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spanish Texas, 1519-1821 write by Donald E. Chipman. This book was released on 1992. Spanish Texas, 1519-1821 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modern Texas, like Mexico to the south, traces its beginning to sixteenth-century encounters between Spaniards, Native American peoples, and a vast land unexplored by Europeans. Unlike Mexico, however, Texas eventually received the stamp of Anglo-American culture, so that Spanish contributions to present-day Texas tend to be obscured or even unknown. In this pathfinding study, Donald E. Chipman draws on archival and secondary sources to write the story of Spain's three-hundred-year presence and continuing influence in the land that has become Texas. Chipman begins with the first European sighting of Texas shores in 1519. He goes on to chronicle the amazing eight-year (1528-1536) trek across much of southern Texas and northern Mexico that brought Cabeza de Vaca and three companions from a shipwreck near Galveston Island all the way to Mexico City. He records the exploits of Francisco Vazquez de Coronado and Luis Moscoso in the early 1540s and the subsequent 150-year hiatus in Spanish exploration in Texas. Chipman devotes much attention to the eighteenth century, a time of active Spanish colonization. He examines the role of missions, presidios, and civil settlements and discusses relations between the Spanish and other groups, including Native Americans, French explorers, and Anglo-Americans. Although Mexican independence ended the Spanish era in 1821, Chipman finds that Spain has left a substantial legacy in modern Texas. Ranching and its terminology sprang from Spanish vaqueros. Spanish precedents have shaped modern Texas law in the areas of judicial procedure, land and water law, and family law. Spanish influences abound in Texas art, architecture, music, and theater, not to mentionthe widely spoken Spanish language. And the Roman Catholic religion introduced by the Spaniards continues to have many adherents in Texas. In short, the rich history of Spain in Texas deserves to be widely known by "Texana buffs" and professional historians alike, and Spanish Texas, 1519-1821 is the one-volume source to consult.
Spanish Texas, 1519–1821
Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 write by Donald E. Chipman. This book was released on 1992-12-01. Spanish Texas, 1519–1821 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chipman begins with the first European sighting of Texas shores in 1519. He goes on to chronicle the exploits of Cabeza de Vaca, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, Luis Moscoso, and other sixteenth-century explorers before devoting extensive attention to the eighteenth century, a time of active Spanish colonization.
Three Centuries of Spanish Rule in Texas, 1519-1821
Three Centuries of Spanish Rule in Texas, 1519-1821 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Three Centuries of Spanish Rule in Texas, 1519-1821 write by Thomas Ewing Cotner. This book was released on 1940. Three Centuries of Spanish Rule in Texas, 1519-1821 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Spanish Expeditions into Texas, 1689-1768
Spanish Expeditions into Texas, 1689-1768 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spanish Expeditions into Texas, 1689-1768 write by William C. Foster. This book was released on 1995. Spanish Expeditions into Texas, 1689-1768 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mapping old trails has a romantic allure at least as great as the difficulty involved in doing it. In this book, William Foster produces the first highly accurate maps of the eleven Spanish expeditions from northeastern Mexico into what is now East Texas during the years 1689 to 1768. Foster draws upon the detailed diaries that each expedition kept of its route, cross-checking the journals among themselves and against previously unused eighteenth-century Spanish maps, modern detailed topographic maps, aerial photographs, and on-site inspections. From these sources emerges a clear picture of where the Spanish explorers actually passed through Texas. This information, which corrects many previous misinterpretations, will be widely valuable. Old names of rivers and landforms will be of interest to geographers. Anthropologists and archaeologists will find new information on encounters with some 139 named Indian tribes. Botanists and zoologists will see changes in the distribution of flora and fauna with increasing European habitation, and climatologists will learn more about the "Little Ice Age" along the Rio Grande.
