Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542: "They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects"


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This volume is the first annotated, dual-language edition of thirty-four original documents from the Coronado expedition. Using the latest historical, archaeological, geographical, and linguistic research, historians and paleographers Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint make available accurate transcriptions and modern English translations of the documents, including seven never before published and seven others never before available in English. The volume includes a general introduction and explanatory notes at the beginning of each document.ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Richard Flint is the author of No Settlement, No Conquest, The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years (UNM Press); Great Cruelties Have Been Reported: The 1544 Investigation of the Coronado Expedition; and The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva.
Shirley Cushing Flint is the co-editor and author of numerous articles and books. Her latest book project is No Mere Shadow: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico.
Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542: "They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects" Review
This is the most up-to-date collection of documents relating to the Coronado Expedition. The translatorsand editors have gone to the earliest copies of documents available and translated them from Spanish into English. They have added documents that have not appeared in earlier collections of the event. They have transcribed the documents in Spanish as well. Of great value to many readers and scholars are the elaborate annotations, or notes, and the introductions to each document which includes comments on earlier publications, positive and negative aspects of them, and an appendix with much interesting and useful information such as the names of men (and women) they found, to the extent possible, that were on the expedition. The book will be a valuable source book for anyone, scholar or general reader, interested in ascertaining more truth about Coronado and his travels across New Spain into New Mexico and on to the land of Quivira. The volume will not allay longstanding opinions abour various aspects of the journy or the scholarly nitpicking about details of routes and places visited, but open minds will carefully study the annotations in connection with the contents of the documents and perhaps come to a clearer understanding of long debated controversial details and where they stand on them.Most of the consumer Reviews tell that the "Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542: "They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects"" are high quality item. You can read each testimony from consumers to find out cons and pros from Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542: "They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects" ...

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