América : the epic story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
Goodwin, Robert, 1969-2019
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Place reservation for América : the epic story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern US 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 Spanish conquistadors and their largely forgotten Mexican allies went in search of glory and riches from Florida to California. Many died, few triumphed. 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.
Main title:
América : the epic story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898 / Robert Goodwin.
Author:
Goodwin, Robert, 1969-, author
Imprint:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Collation:
xxii, 519 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781632867223 (hbk)
Dewey class:
979.01
LC class:
E188
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2475344
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