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Article: Feast of Souls: Indians and Spaniards in the Seventeenth-Century Missions of Florida and New Mexico.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- February 1, 2007
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Feast of Souls: Indians and Spaniards in the Seventeenth-Century Missions of Florida and New Mexico. By Robert C. Galgano. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 212. $37.50, ISBN 0-8263-3648-5.)
The stated purpose of this volume is to compare the two earliest Spanish frontiers in North America, Florida and New Mexico, putting Indians at the center of the story. Eventually, both frontiers would be pulled into the common gravity field of an expanding nation-state, and Herbert E. Bolton would combine the two regions in his 1921 study that launched the field of the Spanish Borderlands. In the seventeenth century, however, Florida and New Mexico ...