The Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1513-1821 / Edition 1

by John Frances Bannon

Overview

Spain's frontier movement in North America planted Hispanic civilization in much of the future United States beginning with Ponce de Leon's arrival in Florida in 1513. After describing the travels of the conquistador explorers, it continues through three centuries of mission, presidio, and town development in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. As the Anglo-American frontier pushed westward, the Spanish frontier was increasingly a defensive one, and here the clashes between the two are fully explained, as are international rivalries involving the English, French, and even Russian pressures that affected the frontier.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826303097
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	10/01/1974
Series:	Histories of the American Frontier Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Howard R. Lamar is Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale and a former president of that university.

Martin Ridge is a senior research associate in the Henry E. Huntington Library. He has taught at San Diego State University, Indiana University, and the California Institute of Technology. He is the former editor of the Journal of American History and the past president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and Western History Association. He is the author of numerous scholarly and review articles dealing with the American West. He is the coeditor of Histories of the American Frontier.

David J. Weber is The Robert and Nancy Dedman Professor of History and the Director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University.

Editorial Reviews

"A scholarly book, a readable book, a valuable contribution, a vibrant study of a little-known part of the American heritage."

"It is the story of the indelible impression left by Spain that Father Bannon brings to life."

"Any student of the so-called American expansion effort as well as any interested in the Hispanic tradition in the United States would do well to consult Father Bannon's excellent survey."

From the Publisher