Presidio, Mission, and Pueblo: Spanish Architecture and Urbanism in the United States

Monroy, Douglas

doi:10.1215/00182168-85-2-319

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“…These findings echo initial observations at Fort Michilimackinac (Cleland 1970). Self-Sufficiency and the Spanish Presidios Spanish strategy concentrated on defending territory and converting the local Native American populace (Bense 2004;Ciolek-Torrello and Swanson 1997;Early 2004). Spanish presidios in semiarid regions are a notable exception to the norm in this dataset.…”

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“…In contrast, Spanish presidios, even on the edges of New Spain, were intended to support permanent settlement. Presidios housed local governance and provided a base for farming, livestock, families, religious evangelism, and Indigenous diplomacy (Bense 2004;Ciolek-Torrello and Swanson 1997;Early 2004). Presidio soldiers were salaried and often married, although in Spanish Florida, many of the presidio populations consisted of criminals and conscripts (Bense 2004).…”

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An Army Marches on Its Stomach: Comparing Military Provisioning across North American Sixteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Forts

Welker

Mathwich

2023

Am. Antiq.

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Military garrisons in North America were provisioned with a diet based primarily on domesticates. A relationship between colonial diets and nationality has been an assumed truism, encouraging the belief that colonial diets were static and predetermined by European norms and leading to devaluation of colonists’ adaptability and agency. We challenge that perspective using zooarchaeological data on soldiers’ diets at 49 American fortifications in North America. Statistical comparisons reveal that some sites relied heavily on provisioned livestock, while others did not. Dietary patterns were significantly impacted by accessibility, length of occupation, garrison size, and local infrastructure. This evidence suggests that reliance on wild game was an adaptive response to local environmental and cultural factors influencing the accessibility of preferred domesticates, regardless of nationality.

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