Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768

ISBN-13:	9780826314956
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	05/01/1994
Series:	University of Arizona Southwest Centre
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	574
Sales rank:	172,799
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.93(d)
Lexile:	1460L (what's this?)

First published in 1994 and now available again, this Spanish Borderlands classic recounts Jesuit colonization of the Old California, the peninsula now known as Baja California. Jesuit missionaries founded their first settlement in 1697 and unintentionally created a Hispanic society that outlived the missions and their Indian converts. The author brings to light Jesuit missionization and culture, European-Indian contacts, mission and presidio operations, family social life, the unique peninsular economy, and the Jesuit expulsion. Four appendices provide data on Spanish kings, royal officials, Jesuit personnel and visitors, and founders of pre-1768 peninsular California families.