Author | : James Lockhart |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1976-03-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521099905 |
This volume presents a selection of translated public and private letters, written by Spanish officials, merchants, and ordinary settlers, aiming to illuminate the panorama of sixteenth-century Spanish American settler society and its genres of correspondence. Letters written by Native Americans, a few of whom at this time were beginning to practice European-style letter-writing, are also included. It is hoped that readers will feel the colorful humanity of the letter-writers, and also see the wide array of social types and functions during this era in the United States' Southwest.