Lands of Promise and Despair

Rose Marie Beebe is Professor of Spanish Literature at Santa Clara University.Robert M. Senkewicz is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. Beebe and Senkewicz are the coauthors of Junípero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary.

If we had only one anthology to cover the sweep of California history from earliest human habitation to conquest by the United States, it would have to be this extraordinary volume, which weaves learned annotation and original documents into a rich mosaic of narrative, fact, and interpretation."" - Kevin Starr University of Southern California