How Long to Read The San Antonio Missions and their System of Land Tenure

How Long Does it Take to Read The San Antonio Missions and their System of Land Tenure?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 58 minutes to read The San Antonio Missions and their System of Land Tenure by Félix D. Almaráz, Jr.

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

San Antonio, Texas, is unique among North American cities in having five former Spanish missions: San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo; founded in 1718), San José y San Miguel de Aguayo (1720), Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña (1731), San Juan Capistrano (1731), and San Francisco de la Espada (1731). These missions attract a good deal of popular interest but, until this book, they had received surprisingly little scholarly study. The San Antonio Missions and Their System of Land Tenure, a winner in the Presidio La Bahía Award competition, looks at one previously unexamined aspect of mission history—the changes in landownership as the missions passed from sacred to secular owners in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Drawing on exhaustive research in San Antonio and Bexar County archives, Félix Almaráz has reconstructed the land tenure system that began with the Spaniards' jurisprudential right of discovery and progressed through colonial development, culminating with ownership of the mission properties under successive civic jurisdictions (independent Mexico, Republic of Texas, State of Texas, Bexar County, and City of San Antonio). Several broad questions served as focus points for the research. What were the legal bases for the Franciscan missions as instruments of the Spanish Empire? What was the extent of the initial land grants at the time of their establishment in the eighteenth century? How were the missions' agricultural and pastoral lands configured? And, finally, what impact has urbanization had upon the former Franciscan foundations? The findings in this study will be valuable for scholars of Texas borderlands and Hispanic New World history. Additionally, genealogists and people with roots in the San Antonio missions area may find useful clues to family history in this extensive study of landownership along the banks of the Río San Antonio.

How long is The San Antonio Missions and their System of Land Tenure?

The San Antonio Missions and their System of Land Tenure by Félix D. Almaráz, Jr. is 116 pages long, and a total of 29,696 words.

This makes it 39% the length of the average book. It also has 36% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The San Antonio Missions and their System of Land Tenure Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 42 minutes to read The San Antonio Missions and their System of Land Tenure aloud.

What Reading Level is The San Antonio Missions and their System of Land Tenure?

The San Antonio Missions and their System of Land Tenure is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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