Mission: The History and Architecture of the Missions of North America
by Kennedy, Roger G.; Larkin, David (Edited and Designed by), and Freeman, Michael (Photography by)
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395634164
- ISBN 13
- 9780395634165
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. Cloth, 238 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with light shelfwear, slightly sunned. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "Roger Kennedy is very much a historian for our time. Never content with a mere sequence of facts, figures, and events, he brings to his subject the voice of an interpreter and storyteller, ranging back and forth in time and space, blending the many and various aspects of human endeavor into the pattern we call history. This fascinating story of the missions of North America traces the long trail of 'the friars [who] went forth from Catholic Europe to gain converts among the American Indians . . . to colonize America for Spain and thereafter to deny its riches to any other power.' The missions themselves represent a unique example of building on a frontier, memorializing a 'grand endeavor': the westward extension of the great Crusades to the East. The book begins with a discussion of the religious context of the mission-building period and goes on to draw vivid historical portraits of the participants, both European and American. Kennedy describes the specific architectural features - domes, cloisters, ribats - that resulted from the merging of cultural forces. Finally, Kennedy serves as a witty and urbane tour guide through each of the most important mission buildings, from the traces of ruins in Florida to the glory of the restoration of La Purisima Concepcion in California." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.
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- Title
- Mission: The History and Architecture of the Missions of North America
- Author
- Kennedy, Roger G.; Larkin, David (Edited and Designed by), and Freeman, Michael (Photography by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0395634164
- ISBN 13
- 9780395634165
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- American / 2. Colonial, c. 1600-1775; X: Californiana; Architecture / Religious Buildings; Genre & Subject / Religious / Christian;
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