The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain: A Documentary History

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Author: Charles W. Polzer (1931-2003), Thomas Sheridan, Diana Hadley, Thomas H Naylor and Mardith K Schuetz-Miller (editors) Year: 1997 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Place: Tucson Description: Volume 2 in two parts. Part One: The Californias and Sinaloa-Sonora 1700-1765. xii+513 pages with 3 maps, 2 illustrations, glossary, bibliography and index. Part Two: The Central Corridor of Texas 1700-1765: xii+555 pages with 6 maps, 16 illustrations, glossary, bibliography and index. Quarto (9 1/4" x 7 1/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and covers. First editions. Acclaimed by readers and reviewers alike, the first volume of The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain was a landmark in the documentary study of seventeenth-century Spanish Colonial Mexico. Here, Charles W. Polzer and Thomas E. Sheridan bring the same incisive scholarship and careful editing to long-awaited Volume Two, covering the years 1700-1765. The two-part second volume looks at the Spanish expansion as occurring in four north-south corridors that carried the main components of social and political activity. Divided geographically, materials in this book (part 1) relate to the two westernmost corridors, while those in the projected book (part 2) will cover the corridors north to New Mexico and northeast into Texas. Documents in both books demonstrate the importance of regional hostilities rather than exterior threats in the establishment of presid

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