New Mexico

28 Dec 2010 23:08

Especially northern New Mexico, especially Santa Fe and environs. (You'd think that, having lived there for five years, I'd have something to say about it... Let's see. Sunsets: gorgeous. Chile: Addictive; I crave it regularly. Life in a city carefully designed to separate rich, middle-aged people from their money can be less than enchanting when one is young and far from over-paid, if definitely not poor.)

Lynne Sebastian, The Chaco Anasazi: Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest
Robert Silverberg, The Great Pueblo Revolt [One of the few times the natives of the Americas were actually able to drive back their conquerors; probably the largest such reverse. Not the part of history the tourist trade likes you to hear about.]
Marc Simmons, The Last Conquistador: Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest

Samuel P. Arnold, Eating up the Santa Fe Trail
Ronald L. Grimes, Symbol and Conquest: Public Ritual and Drama in Santa Fe
Joseph Masco, The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico [Blurb, ch. 1]
Charles Montgomery, The Spanish Redemption: Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande [blurb]
Molly H. Mullin, Culture in the Marketplace: Gender, Art and Value in the American Southwest
Ed Regis, The Info Mesa: Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau [Yeah, right]
Marc Treib, Sancutaries of Spanish New Mexico [Online]
David J. Weber, What Caused the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?
Michael V. Wilcox, The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact [blurb]
Chris Wilson, The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition