Gardens of New Spain: how Mediterranean plants and foods changed America

PreColumbian Spain The Full Hourglass
1

Mexico before Columbus
31

PreColumbian Agriculture in the American Southwest
59

European Plantways to the New World 14921521
83

Old World Agriculture Comes to the Mexican Mainland
111

Spanish Trade Technology and Livestock
147

New Mexicos First Mediterranean Gardens
163

Into Sonora and Arizona
195

Hispanic Farmers Return to New Mexico
263

Mediterranean Connections to Florida and California
291
The Corridor into Texas
229


Epilogue 309

Master Plant List 315

Glossary
325

Sources 329

Selected Bibliography
343

Index
363

Gardens of New Spain is certainly approachable by gardeners, cooks, and amateurs of Southwestern studies as well as professional historians...it is an important addition to the sparse literature in English on the Old Southwest in the colonial era. (William E. Burns, Howard University Sixteenth Century Journal 2006-01-00)

This scholarly document will be as enduring as the plants upon which it focuses and will reach a wide public audience because of its writing style. (Karen R. Adams New Mexico Historical Review 2005-03-00)

With a light hand, William Dunmire traces the fascinating journeys of plants--from the gardens of the Alhambra, to the floating gardens of Xochimilco, to the sunken gardens of California's Mission San Luis Rey, and to all points in between. Deeply learned, with splendid maps, illustrations, and tables, this is an invaluable reference, but it is also a delight to read. (David Weber, Robert and Nancy Dedman Professor of History and Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University)