LEADER 03121oam 22005414a 450 001 9910474055703321 005 20230621140025.0 010 $a0-8165-1858-0 035 $a(CKB)5590000000463967 035 $a(OCoLC)1281933117 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_83638 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88608 035 $a(oapen)doab88608 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000463967 100 $a20180426h20161999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEmpire of Sand$eThe Seri Indians and the Struggle for Spanish Sonora, 1645?1803 /$fcompiled and edited by Thomas E. Sheridan 205 $aFirst paperback edition. 210 $cUniversity of Arizona Press$d2021 210 1$aTuscon, AZ :$cThe University of Arizona Press,$d2016. 210 4$d©2016. 215 $a1 online resource (493 pages) : $cillustrations, maps ; 311 08$a0-8165-4377-1 330 $aFrom the earliest days of their empire in the New World, the Spanish sought to gain control of the native peoples and lands of what is now Sonora. While missionaries were successful in pacifying many Indians, the Seris?independent groups of hunter-gatherers who lived on the desert shores and islands of the Gulf of California?steadfastly defied Spanish efforts to subjugate them. Empire of Sand is a documentary history of Spanish attempts to convert, control, and ultimately annihilate the Seris. These papers of religious, military, and government officials attest to the Seris? resilience in the face of numerous Spanish attempts to conquer them and remove them from their lands. The documents include early observations of the Seris by Jesuit missionaries, descriptions of the collapse of the Seri mission system in 1748, accounts of the invasion of Tiburón Island in 1750 and the Sonora Expedition of 1767?71, and reports of late eighteenth-century Seri hostilities. Thomas E. Sheridan?s introduction puts the documents in perspective, while his notes objectively clarify their significance. By skillfully weaving the documents into a coherent narrative of Spanish?Seri interaction, he has produced a compelling account of empire and resistance that speaks to anthropologists, historians, and all readers who take heart in stories of resistance to oppression. 606 $aSeri Indians$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01113102 606 $aHistory$zLatin America$xMexico$2bisacsh 606 $aSeri Indians$xHistory$vSources 607 $aMexico$zSonora (State)$2fast 607 $aSonora (Mexico : State)$xHistory$vSources 608 $aSources. 608 $aHistory. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSeri Indians. 615 0$aHistory$xMexico. 615 0$aSeri Indians$xHistory 676 $a972/.1702 700 $aSheridan$b Thomas E$4edt$01174825 702 $aSheridan$b Thomas E. 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910474055703321 996 $aEmpire of Sand$94420360 997 $aUNINA