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San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage

San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Joel Daniel KitchensSeries:Vistas, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-San AntonioPublish date:2/2/2026Pages:344
Language:EnglishPublisher:Texas A&M University PressISBN-13:9781648433405ISBN-10:1648433405UPC:9781648433405Book Category:History, ArchitectureBook Subcategory:United States, Modern, Historic PreservationBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:9.40 x 6.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCBQYVMA4V

San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage

Characterizing San Antonio's five Spanish colonial-era missions as "sites of memory," author and historian Joel Daniel Kitchens explores how and why Spain built the missions, what happened to the missions after the Spanish colonizers left, and how and why the missions came to weigh so heavily in American imagination and identity, even into the twenty-first century.

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Series: Vistas, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-San Antonio
Language:EnglishPublisher:Texas A&M University PressISBN-13:9781648433405ISBN-10:1648433405UPC:9781648433405Book Category:History, ArchitectureBook Subcategory:United States, Modern, Historic PreservationBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:9.40 x 6.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCBQYVMA4V

JOEL DANIEL KITCHENS retired in 2021 as associate professor and humanities reference librarian at Texas A&M University and is the author of Librarians, Historians, and New Opportunities for Discourse: A Guide for Clio's Helpers. He lives in College Station, Texas.


Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

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