Argues that the mid-nineteenth-century encounter between Anglos and californios - the Spanish-speaking elites who ruled Mexican California between 1821 and 1848 - resulted in both the Americanization of California and the ""Mexicanization"" of Americans. Employing performance studies methodologies in his analysis, Gibb traces how oligarchy evolved and developed in the region.
Argues that the mid-nineteenth-century encounter between Anglos and californios - the Spanish-speaking elites who ruled Mexican California between 182...
Originally published in 1983, this book sets the phases and elements of Glasgow’s townscape evolution in their historical framework, from the medieval period when Glasgow was a small but important burgh to the growth of the town thanks to its command of the transatlantic tobacco trade in the 18th Century.
Originally published in 1983, this book sets the phases and elements of Glasgow’s townscape evolution in their historical framework, from the mediev...
