academicanarchist - 5-1-2005 at 06:05 AM
This is the web site for the publisher of my next book on missions in northern Mexico and South America:
http://www.pentacle-press.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?pro...
The book will be published both as a hard copy and e-book on cd. There is also a companion cd with seven powerpoint and high resolution copies of the
maps used in the book. I used several maps from the Library of Congress, including a detailed 1769 maps of the north Mexican frontier (does not
include the Californias) and an 1823 map of northwestern Mexico that does include both Baja California and California. The 1823 map is interesting,
because it not only lists all settlements, missions, etc, but also the political jurisdictions. The hard copy reeproduces the 170 photos in B & W,
while the cd has the photos in color. The book compares the development of missions in northern Mexico and South America, and relies heavily on the
cases of the Baja California and California missions. For those who want signed copies, which of course brings the value of the book down, I can make
arrangements for that. I also am going to try to get to the Baja book signing next year. The book will also be distributed by the University of New
Mexico Press. The pretensious and totally over the top title is: Missions and Frontiers of Spanish America: A Comparative Study of the Impact of
Environmental, Economic, Political, and Socio-Cultural Variations on the Missions in the Rio de la Plata Region and on the Northern Frontier of New
Spain.
On another note, if you have not visited my WebShots web site lately, I have added new mission photos to it. I revisited the New Mexico missions in
March, and have added some of the shots from that trip to the web site. The url is:
http://community.webshots.com/user/aanarchist
There are photos of missions in northern Mexico, and also from South America.
Next Project
academicanarchist - 5-1-2005 at 06:14 AM
Again from the shameless self promotion department. My next project will be a book that will bring together quantitative data on the California and
Baja California missions that I collected during the course of my research for my new book. This includes not only population data, but information on
crop production and numbers of livestock. There probably will also be two sets of illustrations from the 1850s for the California missions. One is a
set of drawing done by Miller of most of the California missions in 1856. They were previously published by Bellerophon Press in Santa Barbara, but I
want to republish them to go along with the other set, that I recently obtained digital copies of from the Bancroft Library. After the conquest of
California during the United States wat against Mexico, the U.S. set up a land court commission in San Francisco, essentially to make it as difficult
as possible for Mexican landowners in California to reconfirm title to their lands. The Catholic church applied for an eventually received title to
the mission sites and some surrounding lands. In 1854, surveys were done of all 21 missions, and the plat maps, which are in color, have never been
published together as a complete set. Engelhardt adapted some of the maps, but only in B & W. My plan is to reproduce all 21 plat maps in color,
and the Miller drawings from two years later will show what the missions looked like at about the same time.
1854 California Mission Plat Map
academicanarchist - 5-1-2005 at 06:43 AM
I am attaching an example of one of the 1854 plat maps, the one for Santa Clara mission. This one is interesting, because it not only shows the
complex built in the early 1820s, but also the older complex that dated to the 1780s, and was in ruins by the 1850s.
Edited version
academicanarchist - 5-1-2005 at 06:44 AM
Great News and Great Work!!!
Skeet/Loreto - 5-1-2005 at 07:51 AM
thanks AA. I will look forward to you very interesting books. I will want a signed copy.
Skeet/Loreto
Skeet
academicanarchist - 5-1-2005 at 08:30 AM
No Problema
Population graph
academicanarchist - 5-1-2005 at 08:34 AM
Neal. My printer is out of ink. Perhaps somebody else can print it out, scan it, and post it. Sorry.
bajalou - 5-1-2005 at 08:55 AM
AA
A nice little program called Windom-soft ScreenhHunter 4.0 Free allows you to select a portion of the screen in front of you and produce a Jpeg file
that you can post etc. Saves the printiong/scanning process. a free download from http://www.wisdom-soft.com/
Saves me a lot of paper!!
TMW - 5-1-2005 at 09:47 AM
I too look forward to your books.