...Andrew Rolle Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California,1535–1846. Edited by rose marie beebe and robert m. senkewicz. California Legacy. Santa Clara: Santa Clara University;Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2001. Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Appendixes. Glossary...

...Christon I. Archer El Real Ejército de California. By carlos lópez urrutia. Illustrations by juan carlos carrasco torrecilla and juan ignacio cuesta millán. Madrid: Grupo Medusa Ediciones,2000. Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. 317 pp. Paper. 2003 by Duke...

...David J. Weber Esteban José Martínez: His Voyage in 1779 to Supply Alta California. Edited and translated by vivian c. fisher. Berkeley: The Bancroft Library, University of California, 2002. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xii, 269 pp. Cloth...

...Carmen Martínez-Calderón This Land Was Mexican Once: Histories of Resistance from Northern California . By Heidenreich Linda . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2007 . Photographs. Tables. Figure. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 255 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cloth, $50.00 . Copyright...

... pages. Its pages (and CD-­ROM) will interest many who study and teach Latin American history and public culture. seth fein, Yale University doi 10.1215/00182168-­2010-­054 The Russian-­Mexican Frontier: Mexican Documents Regarding the Russian Establishments in California, 1808 – 1842. By w...

... the missions is also discussed by examining how local residents interpreted their status as indios in California; by analyzing indigenous participation in local textile production and appropriation of clothing and writing, as well as the role of dance as a means to access power and to “generate new...

...Heidi Tinsman The book is always far more than a synthesis of commodity history. The first five chapters (part 1) on “Chile and the making of California” beautifully upend the area studies tendency to assume that the impact of the United States on Latin America is always greater than the reverse...

...Richard Warner Unknown Island: Seri Indians, Europeans, and San Esteban Island in the Gulf of California. By thomas bowen. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000. Photographs. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxxi, 548 pp. Cloth, $55.00. 2002 by Duke University Press...

...Steven W. Hackel Hispanic Catholicism in Transitional California: The Life of José González Rubio, O. F. M., 1804–1875. By michael charles neri. Monograph Series, vol. 14. Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 1995. Illustration. Notes. Glossary. Index. Bibliography. xii, 175 pp...

...Susan M. Deeds Converting California: Indians and Franciscans in the Missions. By james a. sandos. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xix, 251 pp. Cloth, $35.00. Duke University Press 2006 Book Reviews General...

...Martin Adam Rizzo Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary . By Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz . Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2015 . Plates. Maps. Figures. Notes...

...Christopher Vecsey Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850 . By steven w. hackel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Glossary. Index...

... Agua Caliente figured heavily in the history of Tijuana and Baja California in the 1920s and 1930s, and Vanderwood researched the relationship of the casino- resort to its Tijuana workforce and the national politics of the period, and even its famously eclectic architecture. These three books of...

... union in order to promote good government and shared profits. emily berquist, California State University at Long Beach doi 10.1215/00182168-2009-099 154 HAHR / February Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico. By...

... union in order to promote good government and shared profits. emily berquist, California State University at Long Beach doi 10.1215/00182168-2009-099 154 HAHR / February Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico. By...