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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flint, Richard, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 1510-1554.

Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de.

Discoveries in geography.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Historic sites.

Indians of North America.

History.

Southwest, New--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.

Southwest, New.

Southwest, New--History--To 1848.

New Southwest.

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

Historic sites--Southwest, New.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Southwest, New.

Southwest, New--Antiquities.

Antiquities.

Southwest, New--Discovery and exploration--Spanish--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xviii, 358 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

Summary:

Between 1539 and 1542, two thousand indigenous Mexicans, led by Spanish explorers, made an armed reconnaissance of what is now the American Southwest. The Spaniards' goal was to seize control of the people of the region and convert them to the religion, economy, and way of life of sixteenth-century Spain. The new followers were expected to recognize don Francisco Vazquez de Coronado as their leader. The area's unfamiliar terrain and hostile natives doomed the expedition. The surviving Spaniards returned to Nueva Espana, disillusioned and heavily in debt with a trail of destruction left in their wake that would set the stage for Spain's conflicts in the future.

Flint incorporates recent archaeological and documentary discoveries to offer a new interpretation of how Spaniards attempted to conquer the New World and insight into those who resisted conquest.

Contents:

Introduction : the mechanics of the event

Whys and wherefores

Precious goods of greater India, China, and Antilia

Cíbola, a name for the goal

License from the king and his council

Raising a force and paying for it

Avoiding provocation, demanding submission

Almost a highway

By sea to Chichilticale

Inside Cíbola

Refusal to submit

In the wake of disillusionment

Overture from Cicuique

The heart of the land of flat-roofed towns

Vassalage denied

To the farthest edge

What was seen and what was not

Disintegration and withdrawal

Upshot

One of a hundred and thirty

Discontinuity at mid-century

Enduring life of rumor

Violence, expected but not sought

Maps

Major Spanish-led expeditions in the Western hemisphere, 1492-1598, by date, leader, and area

Chronological context of the Coronado Entrada, A.D. 700-1609.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-346) and index.

ISBN:

9780826343628

0826343627

OCLC:

182779193