Capturing the Landscape of New Spain: Baltasar Obregón and the 1564 Ibarra Expedition. Southwest Center Series. By Rebecca A. Carte

Autor:	Susan M. Deeds
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	History Anthropology Linguistic skills Center (algebra and category theory) Geographer Humanities
Zdroj:	Western Historical Quarterly. 47:493-494
ISSN:	1939-8603 0043-3810
Popis:	Capturing the Landscape of New Spain: Baltasar Obregon and the 1564 Ibarra Expedition. Southwest Center Series. By Rebecca A. Carte. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2015. xiv + 168 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00.) Baltasar Obregon’s Historia de los descubrimientos de Nueva Espana (1584) has been published in two Spanish-language editions (1989, 1997) and one in English (1928) translated by George P. Hammond and Agapito Rey. Since the noted geographer of Mexico’s northwest, Carl O. Sauer, complained in 1932 that Obregon’s text was confused and lurid, no one has attempted a critical cultural reading of it until now. Rebecca A. Carte has used her cultural linguistic skills to undertake this task, providing us with a careful, theoretically informed reading of Obregon’s history of the “greater northwest” that reconciles his purposes … Susan.deeds{at}nau.edu
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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