The California Missions

by Dale Anderson

Book Overview

- Time line- Focus boxes- Maps- Primary source documents- Glossary, Index This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0836853393
• ISBN13: 9780836853391
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: World Almanac Library
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Modern, concise, basic overview

My youngster came across this book in the course of doing a fourth grade missions project, and it has proven to be a great resource. The book provides a modern, concise overview in language a fourth grader can understand. The book does not sugarcoat the heartbreaking realities of the mission system: the collision of Spanish and Native Californian cultures and the decimation and demoralization of native populations. In fact, some readers expecting a more romantic view may be turned off by this history. We are currently using this book along with "The California Missions" by Monsignor Francis J. Weber (a lavishly-illustrated, detailed book that presents a much rosier picture of the missions). We are finding the two books fill most of our research needs, as well as providing interesting family reading.