TY - BOOK AU - Weber,David J. TI - New Spain's far northern frontier: essays on Spain in the American West, 1540-1821 SN - 0870742809 : AV - F799 .N48 1988 U1 - 979 19 PY - 1988///, c1979 CY - Dallas PB - Southern Methodist University Press KW - Southwest, New KW - History KW - To 1848 N1 - Reprint. Originally published : University of New Mexico Press, 1979; Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-311) and index; [1.]; Relevance; The significance of the Spanish borderlands to the United States; Donald E. Worcester --; [2.]; Exploration; The search for the fabulous in the settlement of the Southwest; George P. Hammond --; Spanish scientific exploration along the Pacific coast; Donald C. Cutter --; [3.]; Institutions; The mission as a frontier institution in the Spanish American colonies; Herbert Eugene Bolton --; The Presidio : fortress or farce?; Odie B. Faulk --; The ranching frontier : Spanish institutional backgrounds of Plains cattle industry; Sandra L. Myres --; Settlement patterns and village plans in colonial New Mexico; Marc Simmons --; [4.]; Society; California's Hispanic heritage: a view into the Spanish myth; Manuel Patricio Servin --; Comparative demographic analysis of Texas, 1777-1793; Alicia Vidaurreta Tjarks --; [5.]; Frontier influences; The California frontier; C. Alan Hutchinson --; The frontiers of Hispanic America; Silvio Zavala --; [6.]; Eighteenth-century changes; The north of New Spain as a political problem in the eighteenth century; Luis Navarro Garcia ; translated by Elizabeth Gard and David J. Weber --; Spanish Indian policy in northern Mexico, 1765-1810; Joseph F. Park --; [7.]; Indians as actors; Shifting for survival in the Spanish Southwest; Albert H. Schroeder --; Indians and the breakdown of the Spanish mission system in California; George Harwood Phillips --; [8.]; Cultural tradition; The flowering and decline of the New Mexican santero, 1780-1900; William Wroth --; [9.]; More relevance; Spaniards, environment, and the Pepsi generation; John L. Kessell --; "Scarce more than apes" : historical roots of Anglo-American stereotypes of Mexicans; David J. Weber UR - http://www.archive.org/details/newspainsfarnort00webe UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL2061206M ER -