Product Description: Spanish California—with its diverse mix of Indians, soldiers, settlers, and missionaries—provides a fascinating site for the investigation of individual and collective identity in colonial America. Through innovative methodologies and extensive archival research, the nine essays in this volume reshape our understanding of how people in the northernmost Spanish Borderlands viewed themselves and remade their worlds...read more

Explores the survival of Californian Indian culture amidst the Franciscan missionary rule, the Spaniard liberation, political change, disease, depopulation, the influx of settlers, and America's westward expansion. Simultaneous.