For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and
Spaniards have lived "together yet apart." Now the preeminent
historian of that region's colonial past offers a fresh, balanced
look at the origins of a precarious relationship.
John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted
to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside
stereotypes of a Native American Eden and the Black Legend of
Spanish cruelty, he paints an evenhanded picture of a tense but
interwoven coexistence. Beginning with the first permanent Spanish
settlement among the Pueblos of the Rio Grande in 1598, he proposes
a set of relations more complicated than previous accounts
envisioned and then reinterprets the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the
Spanish reconquest in the 1690s. Kessell clearly describes the
Pueblo world encountered by Spanish conquistador Juan de Onate and
portrays important but lesser-known Indian partisans, all while
weaving analysis and interpretation into the flow of life in
seventeenth-century New Mexico.
Brimming with new insights embedded in an engaging narrative,
Kessell's work presents a clearer picture than ever before of
events leading to the Pueblo Revolt. "Pueblos, Spaniards, and the
Kingdom of New Mexico" is the definitive account of a volatile
era.
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