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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813506503321

Autore

Flint Richard

Titolo

No settlement, no conquest : a history of the Coronado Entrada / / Richard Flint

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, [NM] : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2013

©2008

ISBN

0-8263-4362-7

0-8263-4364-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Disciplina

378

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Southwest, New - History - 16th century

Historic sites - Southwest, New

Excavations (Archaeology) - Southwest, New

Southwest, New Discovery and exploration Spanish

Southwest, New History To 1848

Southwest, New Antiquities

Southwest, New Discovery and exploration Spanish Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Appendix 2: Chronological Context of the Coronado Entrada, A.D. 700-1609Abbreviations Used in the Notes and References; Notes; Glossary; References; Index; Back Cover.

16: What Was Seen and What Was Not17: Disintegration and Withdrawal; 18: Upshot; 19: One of a Hundred and Thirty; 20: Discontinuity at Mid-Century; 21: Enduring Life of Rumor; 22: Violence, Expected but Not Sought; MAPS; Map 1. Nueva España and Tierra Nueva in 1539; Map 2. Señora to Cíbola; Map 3. Cíbola in 1540; Map 4. Cíbola to Cicuique; Map 5. Tiguex, 1540-1542; Map 6. Pecos River to Quivira; Map 7. Southern Europe and North Africa; APPENDICES; Appendix 1: Major Spanish-Led Expeditions in the Western Hemisphere, 1492-1598, by Date, Leader, and Area.

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Mechanics of the Event; 1: Whys and Wherefores; 2: Precious Goods of Greater India, China, and Antilia; 3: Cíbola, a Name



for the Goal; 4: License from the King and His Council; 5: Raising a Force and Paying for It; 6: Avoiding Provocation, Demanding Submission; 7: Almost a Highway; 8: By Sea to Chichilticale; 9: Inside Cíbola; 10: Refusal to Submit; 11: In the Wake of Disillusionment; 12: Overture from Cicuique; 13: The Heart of the Land of Flat-Roofed Towns; 14: Vassalage Denied; 15: To the Farthest Edge.

Sommario/riassunto

Flint takes a new look at the Coronado entrada of 1539-42 that marked the earliest large-scale contact between Europeans and Native Americans in what is now the American Southwest.