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“Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the missions” by James A. Sandos

“These two recent publications on the colonial period in Alta or Nueva California show new ways of approaching the study of the particular cultural encounter between the indigenous groups of pre-colonial California and the Europeans who arrived in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries; both propose a balanced vision that neither glorifies nor despises the work and the motives of the Franciscans in the process of Christianizing the indigenous Californians.”

Taken from Annals of the Institute of Aesthetic Research.

See also:

http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300136432

http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/110.4/br_46.html

The recommended titles are in the Library of the International Institute. If you are interested in reading this recommendation, you can check its availability at library catalogue.

Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the missions / James A. Sandos. — London; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. — XIX, 251 p. ; 24cm — (Yale Western Americana series).

ISBN 978-0-300-13643-2

E78 .C15 S36 200