A Guide to the Manuscript Collections: Manuscripts relating chiefly to Mexico and Central America

A Guide to the Manuscript Collections: Manuscripts relating chiefly to Mexico and Central America
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Publisher : Berkeley : Published for the Bancroft Library by the University of California Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015032038856
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Synopsis A Guide to the Manuscript Collections: Manuscripts relating chiefly to Mexico and Central America by : Bancroft Library

V.1: Pacific and Western manuscripts (except California).

Luis de Carvajal

Luis de Carvajal
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Publisher : Sunstone Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9780865348295
ISBN-13 : 0865348294
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Luis de Carvajal by : Samuel Temkin

In 1579 Philip II awarded a large territory in New Spain to a Portuguese man named Luis de Carvajal. That territory included a significant portion of present day Mexico, as well as portions of Texas and New Mexico. This remarkable man discovered, conquered, and settled most of that territory. He also brought a large group of settlers from Spain and Portugal whose impact on its cultural development was very significant. Many of those settlers were of Jewish descent and some of them were tried by the Inquisition for practicing the faith of their ancestors. This book is a biography of Carvajal and is based on documents that were written during his life or soon after his death. The narrative follows him from birth to death and describes the actions he took to give rise to Nuevo Reino de Le n. These included explorations and discoveries; battles with free Indians; pacifications of Indian uprisings; and legal fights with Crown officials who were determined to eliminate him and to end his government. In the end his enemies defeated him with the help of the Inquisition, but the political entity he gave rise to did not die with him. Samuel Temkin is Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University. He received a PhD in Engineering from Brown University and has been a visiting professor in Chile, Germany, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Spain. Professor Temkin is the author of "Elements of Acoustics and Suspension Acoustics: An Introduction to the Physics of Suspensions" as well as numerous research articles on Acoustics and Fluid Dynamics, and of many research articles, on the topic of this book. Dr. Temkin was born in Mexico City and was raised in Monterrey, Mexico, the capital city of what once was Nuevo Reino de Le n.

Californio Portraits

Californio Portraits
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9780806152592
ISBN-13 : 0806152591
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Californio Portraits by : Harry W. Crosby

First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios’ contact with the outside world and profoundly affected their traditional way of life. This updated and expanded version of that now-classic work incorporates the fruits of further investigation into the Californios’ lives and history, by Crosby and others. The result is the most thorough and extensive account of the people of Baja California from the time of the peninsula’s occupation by the Spaniards in the seventeenth century to the present. Californio Portraits combines history and sociology to provide an in-depth view of a culture that has managed to survive dramatic changes. Having ridden hundreds of miles by mule to visit with various Californio families and gain their confidence, Crosby provides an unparalleled view of their unique lifestyle. Beginning with the story of the first Californios—the eighteenth-century presidio soldiers who accompanied Jesuit missionaries, followed by miners and independent ranchers—Crosby provides personal accounts of their modern-day descendants and the ways they build their homes, prepare their food, find their water, and tan their cowhides. Augmenting his previous work with significant new sources, material, and photographs, he draws a richly textured portrait of a people unlike any other—families cultivating skills from an earlier century, living in semi-isolation for decades and, even after completion of the transpeninsular highway, reachable only by mule and horseback. Combining a revised and updated text with a new foreword, introduction, and updated bibliography, Californio Portraits offers the clearest and most detailed portrait possible of a fascinating, unique, and inaccessible people and culture.

The British National Bibliography

The British National Bibliography
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 2374
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015079755206
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Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis The British National Bibliography by : Arthur James Wells

A Guide to Published Library Catalogs

A Guide to Published Library Catalogs
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Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 0810814773
ISBN-13 : 9780810814776
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis A Guide to Published Library Catalogs by : Bonnie R. Nelson

The American Archivist

The American Archivist
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 638
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015071393717
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Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Archivist by :

Includes sections "Reviews of books" and "Abstracts of archive publications (Western and Eastern Europe)."

The American Archivist Volume 36.Number 4.October 1973

The American Archivist  Volume 36.Number 4.October 1973
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1238
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ISBN-10 : YONSEI:01116267
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Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Archivist Volume 36.Number 4.October 1973 by : Edward Weldon,The Society of American Archivists

Mizo thawnthu

Mizo thawnthu
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : CHI:19118222
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Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Mizo thawnthu by : P. S. Dahrawka

Catalog of Printed Books. Supplement

Catalog of Printed Books. Supplement
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 734
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106020978331
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Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Catalog of Printed Books. Supplement by : Bancroft Library