Over nearly three centuries, Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries built a network of churches throughout the "new world" of New Spain. Since the early twentieth century, scholars have studied the colonial architecture of southern New Spain, but they have largely ignored the architecture of the north. However, as this book clearly demonstrates, the colonial architecture of Northern New Spain--an area that encompasses most of the southwestern United States and much of northern Mexico--is strikingly beautiful and rich with meaning. After more than two decades of research, both in the...