Title: Literacy, education, and society in New Mexico, 1693-1821
Description: This book explores the role of literacy in the process of colonization, focussing on how individuals learned to read and write, to what ends these skills were employed, and the ways that literacy functioned to maintain and challenge the social order.
Subjects: History, Literacy, Literacy, history, New mexico, history, New mexico, social conditions, Intellectual life
Places: New Mexico
People: Genizaros, Native Americans.
Time periods: 18th century, 19th century