Robert M Senkewicz: 2 books
Junípero Serra
California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713–1784), one of the most widely known and influential inhabitants of early California, embodied many of the ideas and practices that animated the Spanish presence in the Americas. In this definitive biography, translators and historians Rose Marie...
Testimonios
Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn’t count on one thing: the women. When the men weren’t available, the interviewers collected the stories of the women of the household—sometimes...