Empire of Sand

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dc.alternateIdentifier9780816543779
dc.alternateIdentifier9780816518586
dc.alternateIdentifier9780816532896
dc.contributorSheridan, Thomas E.
dc.date2024-08-15T11:39:30Z
dc.date2024-08-15T11:39:30Z
dc.date1999
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T14:09:12Z
dc.descriptionFrom the earliest days of their empire in the New World, the Spanish sought to gain control of the native peoples and lands of what is now Sonora. While missionaries were successful in pacifying many Indians, the Seris--independent groups of hunter-gatherers who lived on the desert shores and islands of the Gulf of California--steadfastly defied Spanish efforts to subjugate them. Empire of Sand is a documentary history of Spanish attempts to convert, control, and ultimately annihilate the Seris. These papers of religious, military, and government officials attest to the Seris' resilience in the face of numerous Spanish attempts to conquer them and remove them from their lands. Most of the documents are being made available for the first time, while the few that have been published are extremely difficult to find. They include early observations of the Seris by Jesuit missionaries; the collapse of the Seri mission system in 1748; accounts of the invasion of Tibur¢n Island in 1750 and the Sonora Expedition of 1767-1771; and reports of late-eighteenth-century Seri hostilities. Thomas Sheridan's introduction puts the documents in perspective, while his notes objectively clarify their significance. In a superb analysis of contact history, Sheridan shows through these documents that Spaniards and Seris understood one another well, and it was their inability to tolerate each other's radically different societies and cultures that led to endless conflict between them. By skillfully weaving the documents into a coherent narrative of Spanish-Seri interaction, he has produced a compelling account of empire and resistance that speaks to anthropologists, historians, and all readers who take heart in stories of resistance to oppression.
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dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92788
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/23483
dc.imprintUniversity of Arizona Press
dc.languageeng
dc.languagespa
dc.licenseConditionAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.pages504
dc.publisherUniversity of Arizona Press
dc.publisherUniversity of Arizona Press
dc.relationisPublishedBy40b84fbe-c64c-45d0-b80a-f260ee8b8f03
dc.relationisbn9780816543779
dc.relationisbn9780816518586
dc.relationisbn9780816532896
dc.resourceTypebook
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source9780816543779.epub
dc.subjectwestern history
dc.subjectSpanish peoples
dc.subjectsonora
dc.subjectmissonaries
dc.subjectnative peoples
dc.subjectindians
dc.subjectgulf of California
dc.subjectmissionaries
dc.subjectSpanish attempts to convert
dc.subjectconversion efforts
dc.subjectseris
dc.subjectreligion
dc.subjectmilitary
dc.subjectgovernment officials
dc.subjectjesuit missionaries
dc.subjectinvasion
dc.subjectsonora expedition
dc.subjectindigenous groups
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
dc.titleEmpire of Sand

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