Conflict and accommodation in colonial New Mexico /

Embracing an argument-based model for teaching history, Debating American History encourages students to participate in a contested, evidence-based discourse about the human past. The series rejects the idea of history as an undisputed narrative and instead presents the past as understood through th...

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Main Author: DeCoster, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Debating American history.
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Summary:Embracing an argument-based model for teaching history, Debating American History encourages students to participate in a contested, evidence-based discourse about the human past. The series rejects the idea of history as an undisputed narrative and instead presents the past as understood through the direct engagement with historical evidence. Each book poses a question that historians debate. How democratic was the U.S. constitution or why did civil war erupt in the United States in 1861, and provides abundant primary sources so that students can make their own efforts at interpreting the evidence. They can then use that analysis to construct answers to the key question that frames the debate and argue in support of their position. Through this process, students develop the dispositions and habits of mind that are central to the discipline of history. Conflict and Accommodation in Colonial New Mexico asks the question, 'How completely did the Spanish empire extend its control into the northern Rio Grande region in the 17th century?'
Physical Description:xxiii, 166 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-155) and index.
ISBN:9780190057046
0190057041