{"product_id":"california-mission-landscapes-9780816637973","title":"California Mission Landscapes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"California’s Spanish-Mexican missions are among the least known of America’s significant historic sites. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid’s pioneering study of the missions’ gardens uncovers their roles as sites of forced labor, romantic nationalism, racial formation, indigenous experience, and religious devotion. Her eye-opening account illuminates the tangled origins and meanings of these gardens, respecting the complexity that makes them so fascinating.\"—Dell Upton, author of \u003ci\u003eAnother City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book must be read to understand the cultural memory presented in the landscape of the California missions. Rather than true to the missions’ actual look and to the history of land use, the gardens create an imagined past and an aestheticized space. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid examines the creation of the celebratory narrative the missions acquired through their landscapes. Her exemplary study makes it possible to also envision them as de-colonial sites.\"—Lisbeth Haas, author of \u003ci\u003eSaints and Citizens: Indigenous History of Colonial Missions and Mexican California\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Out here in California, we’re taught in elementary school that missions set up by Catholic missionaries during the Spanish era were necessary to save the Indians; in college, we’re rightfully taught they were basically concentration camps. This University of Minnesota Press \u003ci\u003elibro\u003c\/i\u003e is of the latter school, but takes on the fascinating prism of gardens to tell its enrapturing narrative.\"—\u003ci\u003eMonterey County Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A case study for discussing the politics of memory for heritage sites worldwide, making it an appropriate addition for any art library.\"—\u003ci\u003eARLIS\/NA Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kryder-Reid’s strengths lie with her detailed interrogation of mission gardens, and California mission heritage more broadly, as well as her ability to foster dialogue about colonialism and the formation of cultural memory.\"—\u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Poignant and timely... More importantly, it is a counter narrative that needs to be told.\"—\u003ci\u003eNews from Native California\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book’s greatest strength is in reinforcing the idea of \u003ci\u003elandscape as text\u003c\/i\u003e. It is well written and reflect solid research.\"—\u003ci\u003eHistorical Geography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Using landscape as a starting point, Kryder-Reid marshals a truly impressive array of evidence to show how the California missions have been remade over time and to imagine what the future might hold for these historically and emotionally resonant places.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book succeeds as a primer for those interested in the ways California’s missions have been interpreted to date. Further, it successfully discusses how future interpretive plans that allow for meaningful conversations to take place at sites with difficult, contested histories might be envisioned.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew Mexico Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Missions, Memory, and Heritage\u003cbr\u003e 1. Into the Corral: Colonial Landscapes, Domination, and Resistance\u003cbr\u003e 2. Time Binding: The Invention of the Mission Garden\u003cbr\u003e 3. “Where It Belongs in Time and Place and Public Understanding”\u003cbr\u003e 4. Subtle and Peculiar Power: The Embodied Experience of Heritage\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Third Spaces and the Future of Mission Memory Practices\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Plant List, Santa Barbara Mission Garden, 1903\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038543249751,"sku":"9780816637973","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/california-mission-landscapes-9780816637973","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}