Research Catalog

Title

América : the epic story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898 / Robert Goodwin.

Author

Goodwin, Robert, 1969-

Publication

• New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xxii, 519 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm

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"--

Subject

• To 1848
• Spanish colonies
• Spain > Colonies > North America
• Southwest, New > History > To 1848
• Southern States > History
• North America
• Southern States
• Southwest, New

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-450) and index.

Contents

"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.

Call Number

JFE 19-6547

ISBN

• 9781632867223
• 1632867222

LCCN

• 2018047043
• 40029003303

OCLC

1060183046

Author

Goodwin, Robert, 1969- author.

Title

América : the epic story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898 / Robert Goodwin.

Publisher

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-450) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1848

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781632867247

Other Standard Identifier

40029003303

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6547