New Mexico: A History
- ISBN-10
- 0806151137
- ISBN-13
- 9780806151137
- Series
- New Mexico
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 384
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09-26
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Authors
- Joseph P. Sánchez, Robert L. Spude, Art Gómez
Description
Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement, New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track. But this new history reminds readers that the world has been beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, several railroads, Route 66, the interstate highway system, and now the Internet. This first complete history of New Mexico in more than thirty years begins with the prehistoric cultures of the earliest inhabitants. The authors then trace the state’s growth from the arrival of Spanish explorers and colonizers in the sixteenth century to the centennial of statehood in 2012. Most historians have made the territory’s admission to the Union in 1912 as the starting point for the state’s modernization. As this book shows, however, the transformation from frontier province to modern state began with World War II. The technological advancements of the Atomic Era, spawned during wartime, propelled New Mexico to the forefront of scientific research and pointed it toward the twenty-first century. The authors discuss the state’s historical and cultural geography, the economics of mining and ranching, irrigation’s crucial role in agriculture, and the impact of Native political activism and tribe-owned gambling casinos. New Mexico: A History will be a vital source for anyone seeking to understand the complex interactions of the indigenous inhabitants, Spanish settlers, immigrants, and their descendants who have created New Mexico and who shape its future.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
America, New Mexico
By Robert Leonard ReidBut it is also a land of paradox. In America, New Mexico, Robert Leonard Reid explores deep inside New Mexico's landscape to find the real New Mexico—with all of its gifts and challenges—within.
-
The Spell of New Mexico
By Tony HillermanEssays by some of the 20th century's best known writers celebrate the unique appeal of New Mexico. Famous writers tell of the fascination of New Mexico.
-
New Mexico
By Susan A. Roberts, Calvin Alexander RobertsThis revision of the 1988 edition takes the reader to the opening years of the twenty-first century. What they said about the earlier edition: New Mexico covers a lot of ground. . .
-
Our New Mexico: A Twentieth Century History
By Calvin A. RobertsPueblo languages fall into three linguistic groupings : Tanoan ( with three subgroupings , Tiwa , Tewa , and Towa ) ; Keres ; and Zuni , a language unique to that pueblo alone . Present - day New Mexico pueblos are located in six ...
-
LAND/ART New Mexico
This book is the culmination and documentation of this six-month, and features the work of over forty artists including Michael Berman, Erika Blumenfeld, David Taylor, Basia Irland, Patrick Dougherty, Catalina Delgado Trunk, and Shelley ...
-
The Missions of New Mexico, 1776: A Description by Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez with Other Contemporary Documents
By Francisco Atanasio Domínguez[Fray Angel Manrique, Laurea Evangélica, Salamanca, 1605. 1788 Inventory: “Laurea Evangelica sin prin. ni fin.”] [105] Física by Merinero, two volumes. [Fray Juan Merinero, Commentarii in duos Libros Aristotelis de Ortu et Interitu ...
-
Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico
By John L. KessellFor more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived "together yet apart." Now the preeminent historian of that region's colonial past offers a fresh,...
-
Good Night New Mexico
By Adam Gamble, Mark JasperIn colorful detail, Good Night New Mexico explores the iconic cities of Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Silver City, Taos, and Santa Fe. Young readers discover the treasures of Carlsbad Caverns, White Sands National Monument, the Gila Cliff ...
-
Public Education in New Mexico
By John B. Mondragón, Ernest S. StapletonThe structure, politics, and financing of education in New Mexico today.
-
Pueblos of New Mexico
By Ana PachecoAs early as 1851, photographers journeyed along the arduous Santa Fe Trail on horseback and in covered wagons on a quest to capture the magnificent vistas on film.