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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index
Main entries in Passenger and Immigration Lists Index provide information including name and age of immigrant; year and place of arrival, naturalization, or other records which indicates person indexed is an immigrant; code indicating the source indexed and the page number in the source which contains the record; and the names of all listed family members together with their age and relationship to the main entry.
Catalina
When a sixteen-year-old Spanish girl sees a religious vision while praying in a convent, she becomes involved in a series of humorous adventures. Catalina is a crippled girl, supposedly cured by divine intervention after witnessing a vision of the Virgin Mary. As a result of this, she is pressured into becoming a nun in a Carmelite convent. The Bishop of Segovia, himself undergoing a crisis of faith, becomes involved in the debate about the debt owed to god by Catalina for her cure, but the girl resists all attempts to control her life, determined to marry the man she loves. She joins a troupe of strolling players and becomes the most famous actress in all of Spain.
Conversos on Trial
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The Adobe Kingdom
Yearning for his roots and for a return to the land of his birth, Lucero follows two families across 12 generations, from their entry into New Mexico at "La Toma del Rio del Norte," in 1598, to their achievement of statehood in 1912 and beyond.
Spanish Colonial Women and the Law: Complaints, Lawsuits, and Criminal Behavior
Women in early 18th century Spanish Colonial New Mexico had rights and privileges under Spanish law that were not enjoyed by other women in North America until the late 19th and early 20th century. Women were considered separate entities under the law and valuable members of Spanish society. As such, they could own property, inherit in their own name, and act as court witnesses. In particular they could make accusations and denunciations to the local alcalde mayor and governor, which they frequently did. The documents in this book show that Spanish Colonial women were aware of their rights and took advantage of them to assert themselves in the struggling communities of the New Mexican fronti...
Blanca, “El Ricote” de Don Quijote. Expulsión y regreso de los moriscos del último enclave islámico más grande de España. Años 1613-1654. Tomo II.
A pesar de que sobre los moriscos de Granada y Valencia se ha escrito una gran cantidad de obras y se han tratado los temas con bastante profundidad, no se puede decir lo mismo en el caso de los moriscos de Aragon y del reino de Murcia; menos aun de un pueblo murciano. Es curioso, pero en Murcia existian en 2001 solamente dos libros de bolsillos que tratan sobre los moriscos. Al parecer esta especie de vacio historico es el mejor testimonio del desinteres de los historiadores en cuanto no sean fuentes y puntos de vista oficiales. Y termino con las palabras del historiador de la Universidad de Harvard, Prof. Francisco Marquez Villanueva, que escribio el prologo en este libro: "Govert Westerveld reempalma noblemente con su compatriota el arabista Reinhart P. Dozy para hacer justicia a realidades ocultas adrede, porque "la historia de Espana esta falsamente escrita, echando culpas erroneas a vencidos, calumniandolos."
