Feast of Souls: Indians and Spaniards in the Seventeenth-Century Missions of Florida and New Mexico
Robert Galgano
Feast of Souls explores native peoples' responses to Spanish attempts to challenge and replace traditional spiritual practices in Florida and New Mexico. In these two regions, Franciscan missions were the primary mechanism for both spiritual and secular colonization in the seventeenth century.
By 1700, there were only about 1,000 Spaniards in Florida and 3,000 in New Mexico; the newcomers relied on Indians for potential converts, laborers, trading partners, and military allies. But, the Spaniards' very presence among indigenous peoples created epidemiological, political, material, and economic crises in native communities.
Natives' reactions in New Mexico and Florida varied widely but they nonetheless sought to control their own destinies. Some groups embraced the conquerors' offerings on their own terms and some rejected them totally. Some even fled or rebelled, as in Florida in 1656 and New Mexico in 1680. Sifting through Spanish colonial accounts and modern archaeological and architectural investigations, Robert Galgano pays equal attention to the views of the newcomers and the natives while emphasizing the Franciscans' perspectives over those of the Spanish political leadership.
About the Author
Robert Galgano is an adjunct faculty member of the history department at the University of Richmond in Virginia. This is his first book.
Hardcover: 248 pages 6 x 9 224 pages 12 halftones, 2 maps0-8263-3648-5 $32.50 ( hardcover ) Coming soon
To Intermix With Our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from Earliest Times to the Indian Removals
Thomas N. Ingersoll
"I think that I or any of my brethren have a right to choose a wife for themselves as well as the whites, and as the whites have taken the liberty to choose my brethren, the Indians, hundreds of thousands of them, as partners in life, I believe the Indians have as much right to choose their partners among the whites if they wish."--William Apess, An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man, 1833
In this groundbreaking study, Thomas Ingersoll argues the Jacksonian American Indian removal policy appealed to popular racial prejudice against all Indians, including special suspicion of mixed bloods. Lawmakers also perceived a threat to white Americans' transatlantic reputation posed by the potential for general racial mixture, or "amalgamation." Beginning in the 1780s, and for the ensuing half-century, alarmed government officials attempted to separate full blood and mixed-blood Indians into enclaves in the Far West, to isolate them from white migrants out of the eastern states and prevent the rise of a new, genuinely alternative mixed society.
Ingersoll begins by examining the origins and early history of mixed bloods in North America. He follows with the lives of individual mixed bloods, an exploration of how the growing mixed population informed racial thought in the Early National Period, and the role of mixed-blood chiefs in opposing the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Thomas N. Ingersoll is associate professor of history at Ohio State University.6 x 9 448 pages 10 halftones
0-8263-3287-0 $39.95 ( hardcover ) Coming soon
Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain's North American Frontiers
Jesús F. de la Teja, Editor
Ross Frank, Editor
Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion brings together twelve original essays on Spain's presence in North America to understand the circumstances and application of social control. "Social control" refers to the use of coercion particularly in response to what dominant groups consider deviant behavior among subordinates. Spain attempted to maintain control of vast areas through persuasion, coercion, or indoctrination to make subordinates accept colonial government and behave according to Spanish expectations.
This volume considers how Spain's monarchs faced competing economic, political, and racial interests. In the New World, others besides the rulers, authorities, and elites sought to effect social control. Ethnic groups and socio-economic classes within colonial communities also exercised control within their own circles. Institutions including the Church, schools, fraternal organizations, and families labored to teach their members to understand their place in society.
An examination of social control mechanisms shows how groups and individuals, including native peoples, formed and understood their options in response to colonial rule. These essays seek to understand how people negotiated their relationships with the Spanish state and institutions, and with each other, while conceiving of the frontier region as an incubator of cultural and economic interactions ranging from acceptance to rejection of European norms, often altering those norms in the process.
Published in cooperation with the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
Contributors:
Juliana Barr is assistant professor at the University of Florida.
Susan M. Deeds is professor of history at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
José Cuello directed the Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit from 1989 through 2001.
Gilbert C. Din is professor emeritus, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado.
Alfredo Jiménez is professor emeritus in the department of American History, Universidad de Sevilla.
Jane Landers is associate dean of the College of Arts & Science, and associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University
Patricia Osante is a researcher in the Historical Institute of Research and coordinates the Northern Mexican History Seminar at the same university.
Cynthia Radding is Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico.
James A. Sandos is Farquhar Professor of the Southwest at the University of Redlands in southern California.
Cecilia Sheridan Prieto works as researcher in the Saltillo, Coahuila, branch of the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social.
Jesús F. de la Teja, Ph.D. is chair of the history department at Texas State University, San Marcos.
Ross Frank is associate professor in the department of ethnic studies, University of California, San Diego.6 x 9 384 pages
0-8263-3646-9 $24.95 ( paperback ) Coming soon
Interpreting Spanish Colonialism: Empires, Nations, and Legends
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Editor
John M. Nieto-Phillips, Editor
Interpreting Spanish Colonialism offers a compelling examination of how historians in Spain and the Americas have come to understand and write about the Spanish colonial past and its meanings for national presents. Working from a transnational perspective, the book brings together scholars of Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. The eight essays situate historians' writings within the context of their day, suggesting how "history" has--perhaps more often than not--responded to present-day needs, agendas, and expectations.
This collection retraces the link between historiography and nation-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also explores how and why Spain and its colonies came to be depicted as "backward" and "marginal" to other European and U.S. "modern" regimes. Finally, it questions the contours of contemporary discussions of colonial and postcolonial histories that have remained largely silent about the legacies of centuries of Spanish rule.
Contributors:
Jeremy Adelman is the Walter S. Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture and chair of the history department, Princeton University.
Astrid Cubano-Iguina is professor of history at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.
José del Valle is associate professor of Hispanic linguistics, Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Antonio Feros is associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Javier Morillo-Alicea has taught history and anthropology at Carleton College, Northfield, MN, and Macalester College, St. Paul.
Dale Tomich is professor of sociology and history at Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.
Samuel Truett is assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara is associate professor of history and director of Latin American and Latino Studies at Fordham University, New York.
John M. Nieto-Phillips is associate professor of history and Latino studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
9 x 6 304 pages 7 halftones, 2 maps0-8263-3673-6 $32.95 ( paperback ) Coming soon
Missions and the Frontiers of Spanish America: A Comparative Study of the Impact of Environmental, Economic, Political and Socio-cultural Variations on the Missions in the Rio de la Plata Region and on the Northern Frontier of New Spain
Robert H. Jackson
Robert Jackson's tenth and most ambitious book explores the factors and dispels the false ideas around how the fringes of Spain's empire in the Americas developed. He details how environmental differences and socio-cultural variations had a controlling influence on development of the missions in each region and how these factors explain the striking differences in the mission structure.
Jackson's extensive on-site research covers New Mexico (1598–1580 and 1696–1833), the Rio de la Plata region (1609–1848), the Primeria Alta Region (1687–1833), Texas (1690–1695 and 1716–1815), Baja California (1697–1833), and Alta California (1769–1833).
Missions and the Frontiers of Spanish America is a readable and generously illustrated book that puts the role of the missions, missionaries, and indigenous peoples into a broader historical context.
Robert H. Jackson, an independent historian, resides in Spring, Texas. He is widely published in the history of colonial Latin America and the borderlands.
Pentacle Press
6 x 9 592 pages 187 halftones, 19 maps0-9763500-0-9 $44.95 ( hardcover ) In stock
August 13, 2005