Author: James Early

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This is the first of only two books in English on Mexican Architecture in the entire colonial period. In colorful and lucid prose the author ibntroduces his subject with an overview of the City of Mexico and surrounding areas at the time of the first Spanish Contact, discussing two great programs of building that followed and the patterns of living associated with them. The chapters are organized bwtween civic and sacred architecture. Dallas, 2001 1st Southern Methodist University printing, 8&1/2 x 11, 221 Pgs., PB.

Author: Malcolm Ebright

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The stories of land loss and displacement resulting from the U.S. invasion of the Southwest need to be told over and over again whether or not the U.S. Government or the state government ever provides any redress or even admits responsibility for the injustice of land grant adjudication. Stanley Crawford said "essential for anyone wishing to understand the historical and legal strata underlying land and water disputes still raging across the landscape of Northern New Mexico. This book is scholarship at its best, which is to say that justice is served at last." Illustrated. Santa Fe, NM, 2008 Center for Land Grant Studies Press, 3rd Ed., 6 x 9, 401 Pgs., PB.

Author: Howard J. Ehrlichman

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Interstate 35 runs some five hundred miles between the Rio Grande and the Red River. It is a towering achievement of modern transportaion engineering linking a string of Texas metropolises and some 7.7 million people, and yet it all evolved from a series of humble little trails. This is a fascinating popular history. College Station, TX 2006 1st Ed., 284 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/2, HB.

Author: John Eidsmoe

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USED BOOK. Foreword by Peter Marshall. The book is subtitled, The Controversy, The Conquest, The Mission, The Vision. Written from a spiritual perspective it asks several questions: Did Christopher Columbus exploit the people of America or did he evangelize them? What were his true goals, his motives, his reasons for undertaking the dangerous voyage? Did Hernando Cortéz subjugate the people of Mexico-or did he liberate them?Regarding their controversy is it really the correct historical record or is it an assault on the values of Western Civilization and Christianity which is the source of our values? The author sets out make his case in answer to the above. As New but has owner's name covered by purple marker on title page. Green Forest AR, 1992 New Leaf Press 1st Ed. 5&1/2 x 8&1/2, maps, 304 Pgs., PB

Author: J.H. Elliott

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The editor, a master Latin American historian has assembled a team of scholars from the English-and Spanish-speaking worlds to provide a lively picture of Hispanic civilization. Charts the rise and fall of Spain’s Power and prestige. 320 Illus., 100 in color. Beautiful coffee table size book. London, 1991, 1st Ed., 272 Pgs.

Author: J. H. Elliott

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Twelve essays by the noted scholar on Imperial Spain are presented looking at the character of the Spanish Hapsburg court; the ties between sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Spain, the rest of Europe, and the New World; and the decline of Spanish world power. New Haven, CT. 1997,4th Pr., PB, 294 Pgs

Author: J.H. Ellliott

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Sir John Elliott is Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Oxford Ubiversity, and an acknowledged expert on Latin American history. This latest work is an epic history comparing the empires built by Spain and Britain in the New World to the end of Spanish Colonial rule in the 19th century. Contrasts the worlds built by both nations on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies similiarities and differences,, the character of their colonial societies, their distinctive styles of government, and the independence movement mounted against them. Illustrations. New Haven, 2006 Yale University Press 1st Ed., 546 Pgs., 6&1/2 x 9&1/2, HB.

Author: Joel René Escobar Sáenz

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Capt. Bartolomé González was the founder of one of the González branches of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Texas and the U.S. Southwest. Other branches come from the González Hidalgo and González Paredes clans. Bapt. Bartolomé arrived in Monterrey circa 1645 as a miner in Valle de Los Salinas and was mayor of Monterrey in 1648. Two of his sons kept the González name but three others took the Quintanilla surname. Another excellent publication by the author. McAllen, TX 2005 1st Ed., 414 total Pgs. 8 &1/2 x 11, HB.

Author: Joel René Escobar Y Sáenz

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This is the Index to accompany item # 914 in the Hispanic Genealogy section, the hardback volume of Capt. Bartolome and his Descendants. Pharr, TX, 2006 Self published 1st Ed., 63 Pgs, PCB, 8 & 1/2 x 11, PB.

Author: Joel René Escobar y Sáenz

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Another outstanding Hispanic genealogy and history work by our friend and prolific researcher from South Texas. Presents an accurate account(as records wiill allow) of one of the founding families of Reynosa(1749) and Matamoros(1784), a powerful, politically-connected family who acquired some of the largest Spanish and Mexican land grants in what would eventually become South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley. Unfortunately the family heritage and birthright were taken away by family members who were unable to read or understand deeds, terms and leases they were signing with Anglo entrepreneurs and land speculators. The first part of the book encompasses the changing times in the history of this Texas period and the second part concentrates on the actual genealogies of the Balli family. Illustrated and with a family picture album.Contains a handy index. McAllen, TX, 2008 Privately Printed (Copy Zone Center) 1st Ed., 250 Pgs., 8 &1/2 x 11, HB.

Author: Joel René Escobar y Sáenz

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NOW OUT OF PRINT. LIMITED COPIES AVAILABLE. The history of the Escobars of Starr County through the seventh and eight generations. Over 4,800 names included in this family history of the Escobars of New Spain and their arrival in South Texas in 1767. Includes related family lines of Saenz, Garza, Garcia, Alvarez, Laurel, Contreras, Muñoz, Pérez, López, Peña, Gonzalez, Martínez, Longoria and Rosales. Covers period 1770-1990. San Antonio, 1997, 1st Ed. HB, 176 Pgs (66 Index Pgs)

Author: Jose Maria Escobar, et al

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A translation of a commemorative history of Mier written in celebration of 200th anniversary. of the town's founding. Spanish version included. A profusion of names of early families. Contains the original Spanish version. San Antonio, 1996, 2nd Ed. PB, 165 Pgs.

Author: Juan Luis Espejo

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USED BOOK. An invaluable aid to genealogical research in Chilean Spanish colonial history describing in biographical summaries the Captains involved in the Conquest of Chile with very detailed references and an Index. Very Good. Santiago, Chile 1966 Editorial Andrés Bello, 1st Ed., 946 Pgs., HB

Author: Donald E. Everett

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Foreword by W. Eugene George. The 100-block Monte Vista National Historic District survives nearly intact from San Antonio's "Gilded Age" when newly-prosperous residents built the finest neighborhood of the era remaining in Texas. Here architects, drawn to the burgeoning city from across the country, designed homes both elaborate and modest in an unusual variety of styles, from Queen Anne to Tudor to Spanish Colonial Revival. The book portrays the creative designs which shape Monte Vista as well as the lifestyles of those who lived there during the heady times when San Antonio was the largest city in the largest state. Illustrated. San Antonio, TX 1999 Maverick Publishing Company 1st Ed., 8&1/2 x 11, 148 Pgs., PB.

Author: Jo Ella Powell Exley

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Sixteen frontier Texas women, such as Mary Ann Adams Maverick, tell their stories, providing a gripping, highly personal history of the state from its first Anglo settlement through the taming of the last frontier in the west. Some of the stories involve Indian raids, frontier-style "society balls, " the Runaway Scrape, plantation life, yellow fever, trail drives and the bloody Council House fight in San Antonio. College Station, TX, 2000 Texas A&M University Press 8th Pr., 275 Pgs., 6 x 9, PB.