The Spanish Redemption

by Montgomery, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780520229716
• ISBN10: 0520229711
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

A history of the 20th-century elaboration of New Mexico's Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos glorified the colonial past for contemporary power. Arbiters of taste established festivals celebrating the Spanish arts to promote economic development, while Anglo and Hispano politicians invoked that European past to support their own power.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(19)
Hispano Fortunes in New Mexico, 1598--1900	20	(34)
The Race Issue and the ``Spanish-American'' in Party Politics, 1900--1920	54	(35)
Mission Architecture and Colonial Civility, 1904--1920	89	(39)
Discovering ``Spanish Culture'' at the Santa Fe Fiesta, 1919--1936	128	(30)
The Revival of Spanish Colonial Arts, 1924--1936	158	(32)
Regionalism and the Literature of the Soil, 1928--1938	190	(27)
Conclusion: The Coronado Cuarto Centennial and the Depletion of Spanish Heritage	217	(14)
Notes	231	(64)
Bibliography	295	(32)
Index	327