Download or read book Los isle os canarios en el poblamiento de La Louisiana de Bernardo de G lvez written by José Luis Machado and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-23 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siendo Bernardo de Gálvez coronel de Regimiento de Louisiana, vio la necesidad de poblar determinadas zonas de tan amplio territorio, si se quería mantener la posición de España en la provincia. Así fue como nace la idea de transportar familias de las Islas Canarias y de Málaga con esta finalidad, que pudo llevar a cabo al ser nombrado gobernador de Louisiana con el beneplácito del Rey que financió la empresa. La expediciones se llevaron a cabo entre 1774 a 1784 por medio de trece navíos de pequeño porte que partieron de los puertos de Santa Cruz de Tenerife y Las Palmas sucesivamente, con destino a Nueva Orleans directamente o bien con escala en La Habana, además de las sorpresa del navío apresado por los ingleses o desviado por los vientos a La Guaira. Este libro habla de las vicisitudes de los expedicionarios, en donde marcharon además de los soldados a los Regimientos de Louisiana uno y dos, sus familias con el pequeño equipaje que pudieron llevar. Trata de la saga de los Gálvez desde una perspectiva diferente, en la que se describe además de sus vicisitudes familiares, los grandes servicios que hicieron a la corona, en la mejora de la implantación de la soberanía española en Norte América, afianzando bien California como Nuevo México, Texas Louisiana y las Floridas, con descripción de las batallas contra los apaches y otras tribus norteamericanas, que se aproximaban a las misiones en busca de caballos. La consolidación de los caminos reales que hicieron posible la entrada en un territorio hostil y los presidios o fuertes que los defendieron. La fundación de ciudades y su consolidación o desaparición, y demás hechos que pueden arrojar luz sobre una gesta de esfuerzo y sacrificio humano y familiar en que se sustenta esta gesta.
Download or read book Other Immigrants written by David Reimers and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description: In Other immigrants, David M. Reimers offers the first comprehensive account of non-European immigration, chronicling the compelling and diverse stories of frequently overlooked Americans. Reimers traces the early history of Black, Hispanic, and Asian immigrants from the fifteenth century through World War II, when racial hostility led to the virtual exclusion of Asians and aggression towards Blacks and Hispanics. He also describes the modern state of immigration to the U.S., where Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians made up nearly thirty percent of the population at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Mexican American Genealogical Research written by John P. Schmal and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers guidelines, suggestions and an outline to help multigeneational Mexican Americans get started with family history research.
Download or read book No Mexicans Women Or Dogs Allowed written by Cynthia Orozco and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to Chicano nationalist standards of the late 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on extensive archival research, including the personal papers of Alonso S. Perales and Adela Sloss-Vento, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed presents the history of LULAC in a new light, restoring its early twentieth-century context. Cynthia Orozco also provides evidence that perceptions of LULAC as a petite bourgeoisie, assimilationist, conservative, anti-Mexican, anti-working class organization belie the realities of the group's early activism. Supplemented by oral history, this sweeping study probes LULAC's predecessors, such as the Order Sons of America, blending historiography and cultural studies. Against a backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, World War I, gender discrimination, and racial segregation, No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed recasts LULAC at the forefront of civil rights movements in America.
Download or read book Julian Nava written by Julian Nava and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2002-05-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian Nava is one of the most renowned and distinguished elder statesmen in the Hispanic community of the United States. The child of poor Mexican immigrants, Nava rose through years of hardship and hard work to achieve what no other Latino in the United States had achieved before him: Nava became the first Mexican American to serve as ambassador to Mexico. This unforeseen but deserved appointment by President Jimmy Carter followed a life of commitment to his education and that of his community. Nava became the first Mexican American to serve on the Los Angeles school board when it was embattled, facing the challenges of school walkouts and boycotts, desegregation, bilingual education, and a series of issues brought on by the changes in education during the 1970s. The recipient of a Ph.D. in History from Harvard, Nava has been on the front-lines of urban education and politics, while simultaneously building a successful career as a university professor celebrated throughout the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Spain. Navas previously untold story is finally available to inspire people, young and old, toward study, commitment and perseverance, not only for ones self, but for the community and nation.
Download or read book Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands written by W. Eugene George and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican settlers first came to the valley of the Rio Grande to establish their ranchos in the 1750s. Two centuries later the Great River, dammed in an international effort by the U.S. and Mexican governments to provide flood control and a more dependable water supply, inundated twelve settlements that had been built there. Under the waters of the new Falcón Reservoir lay homes, businesses, churches, and cemeteries abandoned by residents on both sides of the river when the floods of 1953 filled the 115,000-acre area two years ahead of schedule. The Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service, and the University of Texas at Austin conducted an initial survey of the communities lost to the Falcón Reservoir, but these studies were never completed or fully reported. When architect W. Eugene George came to the area in the 1960s, he found a way of life waiting to be preserved in words, photographs, and drawings. Two subsequent recessions of the reservoir—in 1983–86 and again in 1996–98—gave George new access to one of the settlements, Guerrero Viejo in Mexico. Unfortunately, the receding lake waters also made the village accessible to looters. George’s work, then, was crucial in documenting the indigenous architecture of these villages, both as it existed prior to the flooding and as it remained before it was despoiled by vandals’ hands. Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands combines George’s original 1975 Texas Historical Commission report with the information he gleaned during the two low-water periods. This handsome, extended photographic essay casts new light on the architecture and lives of the people of the Texas-Mexico borderlands.
Download or read book Gardeners of Identity written by Pedro J. Oiarzabal and published by Center for Basque Studies Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history and development of Basque communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and the institutions they have created. Includes statistics on Bay Area Basque associations
Download or read book To the Line of Fire written by José A. Ramírez and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 Robert A. Calvert Prize In January 1917, German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann sent a telegram to Germany’s Mexican ambassador, authorizing the offer of U.S. territory in exchange for Mexico’s alliance with Germany in the Great War. After the interception of this communication, U.S. intelligence intensified surveillance of the Mexican American community in Texas and elsewhere, vigilant for signs of subversive activity. Yet, even as this was transpiring, thousands of Tejanos (Mexican Texans) were serving in the American military during the war, with many other citizens of Mexican origin contributing to home front efforts. As author José A. Ramírez demonstrates in To the Line of Fire!, the events of World War I and its aftermath would decisively transform the Tejano community, as war-hardened veterans returned with new, broadened perspectives. They led their people in opposing prejudice and discrimination, founding several civil rights groups and eventually merging them into the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the largest and oldest surviving Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States. Ramírez also shows the diversity of reaction to the war on the part of the Tejano community: While some called enthusiastically for full participation in the war effort, others reacted coolly, or only out of fear of reprisal. Scholarly and general readers in Texas history, military history, and Mexican American studies will be richly rewarded by reading To the Line of Fire!
Download or read book Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries written by Meyer Kayserling and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First American Jewish Families written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Haim Cohn, examines Biblical and contemporary documents to provide a startling and provocative look at the Trial and Passion of Jesus from a legal perspective. The author's profound knowledge of the period offers the reader invaluable insights and the necessary context in which to place the events of the Biblical narrative.
Download or read book Latino a Thought written by Francisco H. Vázquez and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latino/a Thought brings together the most important writings that shape Latino consciousness, culture, and activism today. This historical anthology is unique in its presentation of cross cultural writings—especially from Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban writers and political documents—that shape the ideology and experience of U.S. Latinos. Students can read, first hand, the works or authors who most shaped their cultural heritage. They are guided by vivid introductions that set each article or document in its historical context and describe its relevance today. The writings touch on many themes, but are guided by this book's concern for a quest for public citizenship among all Latino populations and a better understanding of racialized populations in the U.S. today.
Download or read book History of Utah 1889 written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicano Visions written by Cheech Marin and published by Bulfinch. This book was released on 2002-09-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating in the early seventies, Chicano art long remained unrecognised by the art and gallery world. This text features the work of 26 Chicano artists and marks the transition of this unique and exciting movement into the critical fold of contemporary art.
Download or read book The Last Knight written by Jose Antonio Lopez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Knight The Story of Don Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara Uribe (1774-1841), a Texas Hero (By Jose Antonio Lopez) Once there was a magical land called Tejas. Here is where our Spanish-Mexican ancestors settled to raise families, build their homes, and ranching communities. They were a rare breed of men and women; a hearty stock, strong of both mind and body. They tamed what historian Jerry Thompson calls the Wild and Vivid Land of South Texas. In so doing, they invented the ranching and cowboy phenomena. However, all was not well. Spain ruled Tejas with oppressive and unjust laws. In response for direction to rid America of European colonial rule, several great American-born leaders answered the call to duty during those turbulent times of the late 1700s and early 1800s. Among these were George Washington, Simon Bolivar, and Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara Uribe. While most people may have heard of the first two, few are familiar with Don Bernardo. The Last Knight is the story of this great Texas hero. To begin with, Don Bernardos life has the drama, action, and intrigue of a Hollywood movie, but it is a true story. He was born in Revilla (now Guerrero), on the southern bank of the Rio Grande back when the Rio was just another South Texas river. (The shape of Texas was very different than it is today.) As a young man, Don Bernardo decided to get involved in bringing social change in his community and throughout Texas and Mexico. It was in this restless period of early Texas history that Don Bernardo volunteered to help Father Miguel Hidalgo in his struggle to gain Mexicos independence from Spain. That is why September 16th is today celebrated in Texas. Don Bernardo was appointed a Lt Colonel in the Republican Army. After a trip to the U.S. to seek help and volunteers, he began his revolution in Nacogdoches. That the struggle began here in the Louisiana border was very significant in a historical sense. Nacogdoches and Los Adaes represented the eastern boundary of New Spain. As a matter of fact, Los Adaes is the first capital of Texas. On April 17, 1813, he wrote Texas first Declaration of Independence and its first constitution. He won a series of battles. He became the first President-Protector (governor) of the Independent State of Texas. However, his hope of victory over the Spanish forces vanished quickly, when he was relieved of command and forced to move to Natchitoches, Louisiana in exile. When Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, Don Bernardo was asked to return to his homeland. He did so in 1824. Upon arriving, he became the governor of the new state of Tamaulipas. He also was appointed to several military posts, including Commandant General of Tamaulipas and Commandant General of the Eastern Interior States (Texas, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, and Nuevo Leon.) He died in 1841 after an illustrious career as a rancher, military leader, Indian fighter, gifted communicator, skilled diplomat, governor of two states (Texas and Tamaulipas), and commandant general of four states. He was a man who possessed rare leadership qualities. We owe our gratitude to this great hero who shared in the first vision of a free and independent Texas.
Download or read book The Los Angeles Almanac 2001 written by Gerhard F. Thornton and published by Given Place Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gateway to Alta California written by Harry Crosby and published by Sunbelt Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of this journey through northern Baja California's unexplored wilderness to San Diego is actually two stories, crafted by artful and incisive historian Harry Crosby. The first begins well before the expedition commences and involves world events, politics, and the characters who were destined to forge this momentous march. The second is a daily record of the trek itself, told through first-person diary excerpts and the author's own comments as he followed in their footsteps, mapping this historic route for the first time. Together, they show not only the hardships and victories of blazing the difficult trail, but the resolve of this company of fifty heroic men. Gateway to Alta California contains the author's color maps, which provide a graphic statement of the journey into terra incognita, as well as his black-and-white photos of the largely unchanged terrain. Also included are lists of all Hispanic members of the expedition party -- many identified here for the first time -- plus pertinent information on their backgrounds and future lives (including those who continued on in July of 1769 with Gaspar de Portola, seeking the port of Monterey). Book jacket.
Download or read book Migration Tears written by Michael Kabotie and published by UCLA American Indian Studies Center. This book was released on 1987 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems dealing with separation, transition, and loss.
