Rose Marie Beebe
Autor von Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846
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Rose Marie Beebe is Professor of Spanish Literature at Santa Clara University. robert M. Senkewicz is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. Beebe and Senkewicz are the coauthors of Junipero serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary.
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Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846 (2001) — Herausgeber — 71 Exemplare
Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary (Volume 3) (Before Gold: California under… (2020) 29 Exemplare
Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo: Life in Spanish, Mexican, and American California (Volume 7) (Before Gold: California under… (2023) 2 Exemplare
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This book presents St. Junípero Serra by using his own letters, journals and sermons. Instead of hearing what others think of Serra, this book allows one to meet the man and form one's own opinion. All texts are from the original and have the authors' own translations.
The book ende, "...Serra’s struggle was his own. His attempt to live out his religious ideals as a missionary among the peoples of America gave his own life its deepest meaning. He profoundly believed that encounters with missionaries would prove more advantageous to eighteenth-century indigenous peoples than the other possibilities that he thought were realistically available to them, specifically domination by soldiers or settlers. In the New Spain of the mid-eighteenth century, this belief was quite reasonable."… (mehr)