Book Description
Combines more than two hundred photographs and a concise history to create an engaging, panoramic view of New Mexico's fascinating past.
Author : Thomas E. Chavez
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826330512
Combines more than two hundred photographs and a concise history to create an engaging, panoramic view of New Mexico's fascinating past.
Author : Michael E. Burke
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
This historical guide traces the peasant days of the Olmecs to the late 20th century and describes events of the past which have left an indelible mark on the politics, economy, culture, spirit and growth of this country and its people. The in-depth research will be of interest to young scholars as well as a handy guide for travellers.
Author : Joseph P. Sánchez
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 11,17 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0806151137
Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement, New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track. But this new history reminds readers that the world has been beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, several railroads, Route 66, the interstate highway system, and now the Internet. This first complete history of New Mexico in more than thirty years begins with the prehistoric cultures of the earliest inhabitants. The authors then trace the state’s growth from the arrival of Spanish explorers and colonizers in the sixteenth century to the centennial of statehood in 2012. Most historians have made the territory’s admission to the Union in 1912 as the starting point for the state’s modernization. As this book shows, however, the transformation from frontier province to modern state began with World War II. The technological advancements of the Atomic Era, spawned during wartime, propelled New Mexico to the forefront of scientific research and pointed it toward the twenty-first century. The authors discuss the state’s historical and cultural geography, the economics of mining and ranching, irrigation’s crucial role in agriculture, and the impact of Native political activism and tribe-owned gambling casinos. New Mexico: A History will be a vital source for anyone seeking to understand the complex interactions of the indigenous inhabitants, Spanish settlers, immigrants, and their descendants who have created New Mexico and who shape its future.
Author : Ray John de Aragón
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2011-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1614237018
New Mexico's Spanish legacy has informed the cultural traditions of one of the last states to join the union for more than four hundred years, or before the alluring capital of Santa Fe was founded in 1610. The fame the region gained from artist Georgia O'Keefe, writers Lew Wallace and D.H. Lawrence and pistolero Billy the Kid has made New Mexico an international tourist destination. But the Spanish annals also have enriched the Land of Enchantment with the factual stories of a superhero knight, the greatest queen in history, a saintly gent whose coffin periodically rises from the depths of the earth and a mysterious ancient map. Join author Ray John de Aragón as he reveals hidden treasure full of suspense and intrigue.
Author : John L. Kessell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0806184833
For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship. John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native American Eden and the Black Legend of Spanish cruelty, he paints an evenhanded picture of a tense but interwoven coexistence. Beginning with the first permanent Spanish settlement among the Pueblos of the Rio Grande in 1598, he proposes a set of relations more complicated than previous accounts envisioned and then reinterprets the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Spanish reconquest in the 1690s. Kessell clearly describes the Pueblo world encountered by Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate and portrays important but lesser-known Indian partisans, all while weaving analysis and interpretation into the flow of life in seventeenth-century New Mexico. Brimming with new insights embedded in an engaging narrative, Kessell’s work presents a clearer picture than ever before of events leading to the Pueblo Revolt. Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico is the definitive account of a volatile era.
Author : Richard Melzer
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1423616332
A pictorial celebration of New Mexico's history and landscape. In celebration of New Mexico's statehood centenial, Richard Melzer focuses on the various social and political elements that have made the Land of Enchantment what it is today. Filled with images that document the past hundred years, New Mexico is a photographic delight accompanied by brief insightful essays that leave the reader in no doubt of a history that is both imposing and exciting in its scope. This book is also an official product of the state's centennial celebration. Richard Anthony Melzer is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico Valencia Campus. He is a former president of the Historical Society of New Mexico and is the author of many books and articles on twentieth-century New Mexico history.
Author : Susan A. Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
A textbook tracing the history of New Mexico's land and people from the Ice Age to the present.
Author : William DeBuys
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826308207
This unusual book is a complete account of the closely linked natural and human history of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity.
Author : Salvador Albiñana
Publisher : Editorial RM
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Art, Mexican
ISBN : 9788415118961
This book explores the work of some great Mexican artists from the first half of the twentieth century in the area of illustrations and posters. Based on an exhibition held in 2010 at the Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración y la Modernidad (MuVIM) in Valencia, Spain, Mexico Illustrated offers a selection of the best illustrations from books, magazines, and posters published from 1920 to 1950.
Author : Thomas E. Chavez
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 29,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826334442
This new perspective on the colorful history of New Mexico includes the stories of many of the people who have spent their lives in the area from before the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century through the present day.