The Spanish redemption : heritage, power, and loss on New Mexico's upper Rio Grande / Charles Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montgomery, Charles H., 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish Americans--New Mexico--History.

Spanish Americans.

Spanish Americans--New Mexico--Intellectual life.

Spanish Americans--New Mexico--Ethnic identity.

Colonial revival (Art)--New Mexico.

Colonial revival (Art).

Colonial revival (Architecture)--New Mexico.

Colonial revival (Architecture).

New Mexico--Civilization.

New Mexico.

New Mexico--Ethnic relations.

Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)--Civilization.

Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.).

Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Charles Montgomery's compelling narrative traces the history of the upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos sought to redefine the region's social character by glorifying its Spanish colonial past. This readable book demonstrates that northern New Mexico's twentieth-century Spanish heritage owes as much to the coming of the Santa Fe Railroad in 1880 as to the first Spanish colonial campaign of 1598.

Contents:

Hispano fortunes in New Mexico, 1598-1900

The race issue and the "Spanish-American" in party politics, 1900-1920

Mission architecture and colonial civility, 1904-1920

Discovering "Spanish culture" at the Santa Fe Fiesta, 1919-1936

The revival of Spanish colonial arts, 1924-1936

Regionalism and the literature of the soil, 1928-1938

Conclusion: The Coronado cuarto centennial and the depletion of Spanish heritage.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-325) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-92737-0

1-59734-910-0

OCLC:

52861457