A Most Splendid Company
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A Most Splendid Company

The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

A Most Splendid Company

The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective

About this book

This magisterial volume unveils Richard and Shirley Flint's deep research into the Latin American and Spanish archives in an effort to track down the history of the participants who came north with the Coronado expedition in 1540. Through their investigation into thousands of legal cases, financial records, proofs of service, letters, journals, and other primary materials, they provide social and cultural documentation on the backgrounds of hundreds of individuals who made up the Coronado expedition and show that the expedition was the first phase of a three-phase effort to complete the Columbian project: to delineate a westward route to Asia from Spain.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Dedication
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. Part 1. Essential Background: Prior to 1530
  11. Social Framework in Spain
  12. Chapter 1. Asian Luxuries
  13. Chapter 2. Sevilla, Epicenter of Transformation to Modernity
  14. Chapter 3. Acclerating Optimism: Economic Boom and Population Surge
  15. Chapter 4. Mobility and Conquest Frontier in Iberia
  16. Chapter 5. The Geography of Expectations
  17. Chapter 6. Private Initiative in Expansion of Royal Sovereignty
  18. Chapter 7. Age of Credit
  19. Chapter 8. Millenarianism
  20. Chapter 9. Status of Indians in the Spanish Court
  21. Chapter 10. Humanism, Renaissance, and Reformation in Spain
  22. Chapter 11. Social and Political Diversity and Stratification
  23. Social Framework in Nueva España
  24. Chapter 12. Native Economies
  25. Chapter 13. Native Travel and Communication
  26. Chapter 14. Community Mobility
  27. Chapter 15. Old World Emigration
  28. Chapter 16. Essentials of Colonial Settlement
  29. Chapter 17. Cabildo and Encomienda: Exploiting Land and People
  30. Chapter 18. Disease
  31. Chapter 19. Native Social and Political Organization as Seen by Europeans
  32. Chapter 20. Old World Natives as Seen by Indios
  33. Chapter 21. Conquest and Resistance
  34. Chapter 22. Native Planning
  35. Chapter 23. Range of Expeditionary Practice
  36. Chapter 24. Indian Allies and Suppression of Warfare within Spanish Dominion
  37. Part 2. Before the Expedition: 1530–1539
  38. Chapter 25. Rumors and Reports
  39. Chapter 26. Five Protagonists
  40. Chapter 27. Nueva Galicia and California
  41. Chapter 28. Resolution of Rival Claims
  42. Assessment and Planning: Mendoza and Associates
  43. Chapter 29. The Mendoza Expedition
  44. Chapter 30. Reconnaissance by Fray Marcos and Vázquez de Coronado
  45. Chapter 31. Verification of Fray Marcos’s Report
  46. Chapter 32. Planning and Preliminaries
  47. Chapter 33. Mendoza’s Three-Phase Approach to Asia
  48. Chapter 34. Sensation in Mexico City
  49. The People
  50. Chapter 35. Diversity and Similarity
  51. Chapter 36. Social and Political Status
  52. Chapter 37. Motives
  53. Chapter 38. Age
  54. Chapter 39. Occupations
  55. Chapter 40. Sense of Place
  56. Chapter 41. Connections between Expeditionarie
  57. Chapter 42. Experience that Mattered
  58. Chapter 43. Indian Allies: Who They Are
  59. Chapter 44. Servants and Slaves from Sevilla to Mexico City and Puebla
  60. Assembling the People
  61. Chapter 45. Assembling the People
  62. Chapter 46. Place of Immediate Origin
  63. Financing
  64. Chapter 47. Financial Participation
  65. Provisioning
  66. Chapter 48. Food
  67. Chapter 49. Clothing
  68. Chapter 50. Medicine
  69. Chapter 51. Tools and Materials
  70. Chapter 52. Arms and Armor
  71. Chapter 53. Livestock
  72. Part 3. During the Expedition: 1539–1542
  73. 1539–1542
  74. Chapter 54. Abstract of the Events of the Expedition to Tierra Nueva
  75. Chapter 55. Native Planning in Tierra Nueva
  76. Organization of the Expedition
  77. Chapter 56. Leadership
  78. Chapter 57. Companies
  79. Chapter 58. Specialists
  80. Chapter 59. Servants and Slaves in Tierra Nueva
  81. Chapter 60. Indios Amigos in Action
  82. Logistics of Travel toward Asia
  83. Chapter 61. Guides, Informants, and Diplomacy
  84. Chapter 62. Intelligibility and Understanding
  85. Chapter 63. Trade and Gift Goods
  86. Chapter 64. Transport
  87. Chapter 65. Supply
  88. Chapter 66. Camp Life
  89. Chapter 67. Winter Housing
  90. Chapter 68. Discipline and Justice
  91. Chapter 69. Petty Commerce
  92. Chaoter 70. International Trade
  93. Chapter 71. Communication and Messengers
  94. Chapter 72. A Dispersed Expedition
  95. Chapter 73. Long-Term and Permanent Absence
  96. Chapter 74. Shifting Strategy and Tactics for Survival
  97. Internal Tensions
  98. Chapter 75. Reasons behind Internal Tensions
  99. Relations with Natives
  100. Chapter 76. The Hope and the Reality
  101. Assessment of Lands Seen
  102. Chapter 77. The Best-Laid Plans
  103. Chapter 78. Reaction to Lands Seen
  104. Part 4. After the Expedition: After 1542
  105. After 1542
  106. Chapter 79. Personal Aftermath
  107. Chapter 80. Physical Effects, Death, Illness, and Injury
  108. Chapter 81. Debt
  109. Chapter 82. Marriage and Children
  110. Chapter 83. Change or Constancy of Attitudes and Outlook
  111. Chapter 84. Recriminations: Indian Rights and Lives
  112. Chapter 85. Secrecy and Scarcity of Contemporaneous Firsthand Accounts
  113. Chapter 86. Long-Term Results: Asia at Last
  114. Conclusions
  115. Chapter 87. Distinctiveness
  116. Chapter 88. Observations and Reflections
  117. Chapter 89. A Summary of Conclusions
  118. Appendix 1. Social and Political Ranking
  119. Appendix 2. Selected Data on Members of the Coronado Expedition
  120. Appendix 3. Signatures
  121. Glossary
  122. Notes
  123. Bibliography
  124. Index