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Author Cruz, Gilberto Rafael

Title Let there be towns : Spanish municipal origins in the American Southwest, 1610-1810 / Gilbert R. Cruz ; foreword by Donald C. Cutter ; [contemporary maps researched and drawn by Chester B. Davis]
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©1988

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages) : illustrations
Series Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 60
Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 60
Contents The Iberian municipal tradition in New Spain -- Santa Fe : the first capital in the continental United States -- El Paso : a strategic town in New Mexico -- San Antonio : early municipal foundings in Texas -- Laredo : origins of a South Texas municipality -- San Jose and Los Angeles : town settlements in Californian -- The civilian settlers : life on the Northern Frontier -- The Cabildo : guardian of justice and social order in the borderlands -- Spanish municipalities in Northern American history
Analysis Cities and towns Southwest, New History
Municipal government Southwest, New History
Southwest, New History To 1848
Spaniards Southwest, New History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-227) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Municipal government -- Southwest, New -- History
Cities and towns -- Southwest, New -- History
Spaniards -- Southwest, New -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
Cities and towns
Municipal government
Spaniards
Stadt
Stadtverwaltung
Steden.
Oorsprong.
Geschichte (1610-1810)
Geschichte (1610-1810)Stadt.
SUBJECT Southwest, New -- History -- To 1848. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125677
Subject New Southwest
USA -- Südweststaaten
Spanien
Nordamerika -- Südwest
Mexiko -- Nordwest
United States, Texas -- Colonization.
United States, New Mexico -- Colonization.
United States, California -- Colonization.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585174563
9780585174563