The 65th Tape

Frank, Ross

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Pan.

The Shining Day

London Macmillan 1981

From Settler to Citizen: New Mexican Economic Development and the Creation of Vecino Society, 1750-1820

The unique arts-and-crafts tradition of the American Southwest illuminates this economic and social history of colonial New Mexico, casting new light on the development of New Mexico's Hispanic community and its changing relationship with Pueblo Indians. Ross Frank's analysis of Pueblo Indian pottery, Pueblo and Spanish blankets, and Spanish religious images—or santos—links economic change to social and cultural change in this region. Using these cultural artifacts to gauge shifts in power and status, Frank charts the creation of a culturally innovative and dominating Hispanic settler—or vecino—community during the final decades of the eighteenth century.Contrary to previous views of this period as an economic backwater, Frank shows that Spanish New Mexico instead experienced growth that tied the region closely to colonial economic reforms of the Spanish empire. The resulting economic boom dramatically altered the balance of power between the Spanish settlers and the Pueblo Indians, giving the vecinos the incentive and the means to exploit their Pueblo Indian neighbors. Frank shows that the vecinos used different strategies to take control of the Pueblo textile and pottery trade. The Hispanic community began to define its cultural identity through the economic and social subordination of the Pueblo Indians.Connecting economic change to powerful cultural and social changes, Frank provides a new understanding of this "borderlands" region of northern New Spain in relatoin to the Spanish colonial history of Mexico. At the same time, From Settler to Citizen recovers the previously unexplored history of an important Hispanic community.

History

Americas

University of California Press

The unique arts-and-crafts tradition of the American Southwest illuminates this economic and social history of colonial New Mexico, casting new light on the development of New Mexico's Hispanic community and its changing relationship with Pueblo Indians. Ross Frank's analysis of Pueblo Indian pottery, Pueblo and Spanish blankets, and Spanish religious images―or santos―links economic change to social and cultural change in this region. Using these cultural artifacts to gauge shifts in power and status, Frank charts the creation of a culturally innovative and dominating Hispanic settler―or vecino―community during the final decades of the eighteenth century. Contrary to previous views of this period as an economic backwater, Frank shows that Spanish New Mexico instead experienced growth that tied the region closely to colonial economic reforms of the Spanish empire. The resulting economic boom dramatically altered the balance of power between the Spanish settlers and the Pueblo Indians, giving the vecinos the incentive and the means to exploit their Pueblo Indian neighbors. Frank shows that the vecinos used different strategies to take control of the Pueblo textile and pottery trade. The Hispanic community began to define its cultural identity through the economic and social subordination of the Pueblo Indians. Connecting economic change to powerful cultural and social changes, Frank provides a new understanding of this "borderlands" region of northern New Spain in relatoin to the Spanish colonial history of Mexico. At the same time, From Settler to Citizen recovers the previously unexplored history of an important Hispanic community.

Business & Money

Economics

The 65th. Tape

BANTAM BOOKS

<p>If you don't catch on to the essential shell-game trick here early on (the chances are about 50-50), Ross' quiet but dashing ways will supply one of the year's more entertaining pure-escapist spy concoctions. The ""sleeping dogs"" are, of course, sleeper Soviet spies: four apparently absolutely ordinary family men who've been neighbors in a sleepy New England hamlet for 20 years, carefully observed and hugged by another apparently absolutely ordinary neighbor--CIA man Sam Hanlon. And, for 20 years, there's absolutely nothing to report. Now, however, there are indications that the sleepers are about to be activated: something anti-dÃ‰tente is afoot, some vigilante KGB move that even the Soviets want to prevent. And so the Company, which has lost faith in sentimental Sam, sends up its most lethal assassin (complete with killer Doberman) to eliminate the sleepers--in a series of bizarre accidents. But Sam, convinced that there's some basic mistake being made, decides to disobey orders, turns renegade, and helps the sole surviving sleeper to escape. The CIA and Sam have indeed made a basic mistake, which means that there are still sleepers at liberty (hint: only the last names of these married sleepers were ever known) and that an assassination countdown-finale is on its way. This coda is highly implausible--dependent on a brainwashed adolescent-assassin--but, like all the rest, it's spun with surprising humanity and utter narrative ease by the same author who made even a PLO scenario (Dead Runner) palatable in 1977. Pub Date: April 24th, 1978 Publisher: Atheneum Kirkus Reviews</p>

Sleeping Dogs

Antique Car Models: Their Stories and How to Make Them

Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard Co

Undersea Vehicles and Habitats: The Peaceful Uses of the Ocean

Science & Math

Technology

Thomas Y. Crowell Company

DEAD RUNNER

Magna Large Print Books

Marcelino Vasquez was a hard-working family man from Coldwater, Arizona. He had a prosperous business and all the trappings of a successful life, including a beautiful house in the expensive part of town. But when he is served with a Summons telling him the government is taking away his home, Marcelino's world turns upside down. Congress had recently passed a law allowing the government to seize profits made from dealing drugs, and DEA task force agents were fingering Marcelino's house as being riches made from trafficking marijuana. The only problem--Marcelino, and his house, are innocent. When his court case ends in tragedy, Marcelino not only loses his home, he loses life as he had known it. Suddenly, the family man is left fending for his freedom from his prison cell, and the national media has become the judge of his guilt or innocence. With the help of his childhood friend, Attorney Jack McGrath, Marcelino uncovers a world of dirty cops, crooked agents, and a convict working off cases by planting false evidence. Will it be enough to get justice for Marcelino? Due Process is a nail-biting crime thriller, built upon real-world laws and legal tactics. Each page will have you asking: If this can happen to Marcelino, can it happen to me?

Due Process: A courtroom drama

Literature & Fiction

Two Harbors Press

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