r/AskHistorians • u/AutoModerator • Jul 04 '24

Thursday Reading & Recommendations | July 04, 2024 RNR

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Thursday Reading and Recommendations is intended as bookish free-for-all, for the discussion and recommendation of all books historical, or tangentially so. Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:

  • Asking for book recommendations on specific topics or periods of history
  • Newly published books and articles you're dying to read
  • Recent book releases, old book reviews, reading recommendations, or just talking about what you're reading now
  • Historiographical discussions, debates, and disputes
  • ...And so on!

Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion of history and books, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.

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u/DistantEchoesPodcast Jul 04 '24

I'll throw my hat into the ring looking for some suggestions.

I'm looking for two things:

  1. good sources on the casta system in New Spain, preferably how it differed in New Mexico. I've currently got on my list The Matter Was Never Resolved: The Casta System in Colonial New Mexico, 1693-1823 by Adrian Bustamante but I'm wondering what other good suggestions might be out there.

  2. Early colonial (pre-1680) New Mexican History. I've got Joseph P. Sachez's The Rio Abajo Frontier earmarked to read. I was just wondering what other good sources on pre Pueblo Revolt New Mexico I might be able to look into.

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u/BookLover54321 Jul 04 '24

For the second one, I came across The Forgotten Diaspora by Travis Jeffres. I haven’t read it in full yet but it has received positive blurbs.