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