Contents
Foreword
Preface
Jesuit Foundations
Gray Robes for Black
1767-68
The Archreformer Backs Down
1768-72
Tumacácori or Troy?
1772-74
The Course of Empire
1774-76
The Promise and Default of the Provincias Internas
1776-81
The Challenge of a Reforming Bishop
1781-95
A Quarrel Among Friars
1795-1808
"Corruption Has Come Among Us"
1808-20
A Trampled Guarantee
1820-28
Hanging On
1828-56
Epilogue
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
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This peaceful and happy state, which the inhabitants
of old Spain looked upon with envy, and which will forever constitute a
political phenomenon difficult to elucidate for our successors, came to
an end after a prolonged period of three hundred years in the fatal
impulse dealt the whole world by the French Revolution.
Intendant-Governor Alejo García Conde,
Arizpe, August 14, 1813
CONCURRENT EVENTS
| 1808 | John Jacob Astor incorporates
the American Fur Company. |
| 1809 | Abraham Lincoln born in Hardin,
Kentucky. |
| 1810 | New Mexico elects Pedro
Bautista Pino as its deputy to the Spanish Cortes, a new
experience.
Zebulon Montgomery Pike publishes his journals, the earliest of an Anglo
in the "Southwest." |
| 1812 | Napoleon invades
Russia.
The U.S. declares war on Great Britain. |
| 1813 | Wellington and the Spaniards
drive the French from Spain.
Spaniards recapture San Antonio, Texas, from filibusters. |
| 1814 | The Society of Jesus is
restored by Pope Pius VII.
The British burn Washington, D.C.
Andrew Jackson beats the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend. |
| 1817-25 | Building of the Erie
Canal. |
| 1819 | By the Adams-Onís Treaty
with Spain, the U.S. gains Florida and a favorable western boundary of
the Louisiana Purchase and renounces claims to Texas.
Sir Walter Scott publishes Ivanhoe.
The Republic of Gran Colombia is proclaimed with Simón Bolivar as
president. |
| 1820 | A liberal revolt in Spain
temporarily reimposes a constitutional monarchy. |
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