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New Mexico's Spanish Livestock Heritage: Four Centuries of Animals, Land, and People
ISBN: 9780826331656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This survey of the history of livestock in New Mexico is the first of its kind, going beyond cowboy culture to examine the ways Spaniards, Indians, and Anglos used domestic animals and how those uses affected the region's landscapes and cultures. Dunmire mines the observations of travelers and the work of earlier historians and other scholars to provide a history of livestock in New Mexico from 1540 to the present. He includes general background on animal domestication in the Old World and the New during pre-Columbian times, along with specific information on each of the six livestock species...
This survey of the history of livestock in New Mexico is the first of its kind, going beyond cowboy culture to examine the ways Spaniards, Indians, an...
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130,77 zł |
Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America
ISBN: 9780292705647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When the Spanish began colonizing the Americas in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they brought with them the plants and foods of their homeland--wheat, melons, grapes, vegetables, and every kind of Mediterranean fruit. Missionaries and colonists introduced these plants to the native peoples of Mexico and the American Southwest, where they became staple crops alongside the corn, beans, and squash that had traditionally sustained the original Americans. This intermingling of Old and New World plants and foods was one of the most significant fusions in the history of international... When the Spanish began colonizing the Americas in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they brought with them the plants and foods of their ... |
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155,56 zł |