| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The Southwest Center series |
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Southwest Center series.
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| Contents |
The Setting : Baja California Geography -- Introduction -- Hernán Cortés and the Discovery of Baja California -- Early Attempts to Colonize Baja California -- Establishing the Baja California Missions -- Baja California Missions Time Line -- The Intact Eighteenth-Century Churches of Baja California. Misión Nuestra Señora de Loreto Conchó, 1697 ; Misión San Francisco Javier Viggé Biaundó, 1699 ; Misión Santa Rosalía de Mulegé, 1705 ; Misión San José de Comondú, 1708 ; Misión San Ignacio de Kadakaamán, 1728 ; Misión San Luis Gonzaga Chiriyaqui, 1737 ; Misión Santa Gertrudis de Cadacamán, 1751 ; Misión San Francisco de Borja Adac, 1762 -- Looking Back at the Baja California Missions |
| Summary |
Bathed in desert light and shadow, rising up from the earth in improbable, faraway places, stand eight original Spanish missions on Mexico's Baja California peninsula. Built of stone by Roman Catholic priests and Indigenous laborers in the eighteenth century, these stunning missions dominate the landscape around them. This book showcases the eight monumental Spanish colonial churches, buildings seldom seen by those familiar with the missions of California, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Spanish mission buildings -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula)
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- History.
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Spanish mission buildings
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Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sedgwick, Mina, photographer
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Fontana, Bernard L., writer of foreword.
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| LC no. |
2012041270 |
| ISBN |
0816599971 |
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9780816599974 |
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