Coronado's Land: Essays on Daily Life in Colonial New Mexico - Softcover

Simmons, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826317022 ISBN 13: 9780826317025

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 1996

Synopsis

At last available in paperback, the twenty-five essays collected here re-create everyday activities of the Hispanic people of colonial northern New Mexico. What people wore, when they shopped, how they amused themselves these are but a few of the commonplace activities considered here.

In reconstructing the daily routines of domestic life and work habits Simmons captures the precariousness of lives threatened by drought, crop failure, Apache raids, and accidents. Simmons's essays permit us to imagine what people long ago thought and felt, which is a considerable accomplishment. But he doesn't stop there: the final section of this volume offers a glimpse of the historian at work. Entitled "Reading History," these essays introduce three late eighteenth-century documents and provide readers with a primer in understanding economic and social problems of the past.

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From the Back Cover

Reconstructs the daily routines of domestic life and work habits of the Hispanic people of colonial northern New Mexico.

About the Author

Marc Simmons is considered New Mexico's historian laureate and has published over forty books on New Mexico history. Simmons is a former Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1993 the King of Spain granted him membership in the knightly Order of Isabela la Católica for his contributions to Spanish colonial history. He resides in Cerrillos, New Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0826317022
• ISBN 13: 9780826317025
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 195