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The Estate Of Fernando Cortes In The Cuernavaca Area Of Mexico, 1522-1547, G. Michael Riley

History ETDs

During the quarter-century following the conquest of the Aztec Confederacy in 1519-1521, Fernando Cortes, the major figure in that epic achievement of Spanish arms in the New World, acquired a great estate in central and southern Mexico consisting of the tributes and labor services of populous Indian towns, extensive land-holdings, mines, Indian and Negro slaves, and business enterprises.

The British Nation And India: 1906-1914, Frank C. Stuart

History ETDs

Great Britain faced a political and moral crisis in India in the years 1906-1914. The inhabitants of Bengal, angered at the partition of their province by Lord Curzon in 1905, talked openly of revolution. More moderate native leaders accused the British of reneging on their promises, made in 1858, to include more Indians in the government of India. The failure of the Indian educational system and the growing mistrust between rulers and ruled in India were likewise held up to censure. Native respect for the Englishman's innate sense of justice and fair play, the mainstay of the British Raj, was …

Spanish Indian Policy In New Mexico, 1778-1793, Ronald J. Benes

History ETDs

This thesis deals with Spanish Indian policy and its implementation in New Mexico during the governorships of Juan Bautista de Anza (1778-1787) and Fernando de la Concha (1787-1794). The Indian tribes involved are those which lived on the frontiers of New Mexico--the Comanches, Utes, Navahos, and Apaches. The establishment of the Commandancy General of the Internal Provinces in 1776 marked a new administrative set up to defend the Internal Provinces against Indian attacks, and the periods of Anza and Concha saw the full development of defensive measures in New Mexico. The Spandiards' immediate objective was pacification of the interior provinces; …

Virginia And The West Indies Trade, 1740-1765, Charles W. Sargent

History ETDs

Although the historian of Virginia's proud heritage has been diligent in the pursuit of various phases of Virginia's political and economic life, the Old Dominion's involvement with the West Indies trade has been all but neglected. The various facets of this trade and its profound effect on Virginia's colonial well-being deserves to be written. Herein is an opportunity to reveal that Virginia's participation in the Revolutionary War had several roots: not the least was the threat to its domestic trade. It goes without saying that this work is not intended to be definitive on the subject as there is yet …

The Baronial Holdings Of The Mortimers At Wigmore From The Conquest Until 1330, Catherine Deans-Barrett

History ETDs

This study of one great border family, the Mortimers, endeavors to show the essentially feudal atmosphere existing in England well into the fourteenth century, even while England was developing, pari passu, a more modern political organization. Although this feudal character may be portrayed and exemplified in many ways, the method chosen here is based on the beginning and subsequent fluctuations of the fortunes of one particular family, the Mortimers. Its origins on the continent cannot be easily traced, but it left an indelible impression on English history.

Since the family customarily chose to cast its lot with that of the …

Summer Welles' Mediation In Cuba, 1933, Margaret Naegle

Latin American Studies ETDs

This writer first became interested in the 1933 revolution in Cuba during lectures given in May, 1963 at the University of New Mexico. As part of these lectures an interesting theory was presented regarding the Communist "takeover" of Cuba. Briefly, this theory holds that behind every successful Communist revolution (Russia, China, Cuba, for examples) there has been an earlier attempt at social revolution which failed. In the case of Cuba, this would be the revolution of 1933, and especially the reformist provisional government of Dr. Ramón Grau San Martín.

The entire process of the 1933 Cuban revolution calls for an …

Saludos Amigas 1964, Associated Women Students

Co-Ed Code/Saludos Amigas

"Welcome to you the coeds of UNM who will be the members of the Associated Women Students for the year 1964-65. This is your handbook. I hope that you will read it carefully so that you may better understand the functions and standards of your self-governing organization."

"This year, A.W.S. is operating under a newly revised constitution. As a governing body, we still retain our three branches--Legislative, Executive and Judicial. The Legislative Council which meets one a week has been expanded to include thirteen elected members. These include the eight officers and five members at large elected from the All …

The Court Of Star Chamber Under Henry Vii And Henry Viii, Marvin M. Lomax

History ETDs

The reader of the standard history texts is left with the impression that the Court of Star Chamber was established by Henry VII essentially out of nowhere to bring order out of chaos and to help secure his rather shaky throne. Once it had succeeded in slapping the wrists of the turbulent nobility the court is depicted as having gradually turned to the exaltation of the royal powers, through becoming a prerogative court, until it was altered by the Stuarts into an instrument of real tyranny. The Court appears as a tribunal which served only to cut off the ears, …