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To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico
Paper, 376 pages, 12 maps; 16 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-12937-4
$24.50
/ £14.50
August, 2005
Cloth, 376 pages, 12 maps; 16 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-12936-7
$43.00
/ £25.50
"To the End of the Earth is a true magnum opus and a fitting conclusion to decades of research." — David Caffey, Prime Time
"For those tracking... family histories, this may prove invaluable... For any reader interested in how culture survives, this book is an inspiring one." — New Mexico
"For any reader interested in how culture survives, this book is an inspiring one." — New Mexico Magazine
"The most extensively researched book on the subject to date . . . a compelling sociological study. " — Ze'ev Glicenstein, The Canadian Jewish News
"This book, honestly researched and beautifully written, can enlarge understanding of the troubled road followed by our evolving Western civilization." — Marc Simmons, Santa Fe New Mexican
"A compelling sociological study." — Bill Gladstone, AVOTAYNU
"This is a well told and stunningly researched detective story." — David J. Webber, Western Historical Quarterly
"Remarkable-even astonishing-though, that we have had to wait until 2005 for a book to appear on a topic that is so intrinsically interesting and that so directly links North American history with that of the Iberian Peninsula." — Hispanic American Historical Review
"Hordes builds a compelling case that can not be easily dismissed. " — Dr. Fred Reiss, The Midwest Book Review
"Hordes has made an important contribution to our understanding of the religious and ethnic diversity of the Southwest and of the force that the beliefs and practices he has brought to light continues to exert in the lives of the people of the region." — Thomas M. Cohen, The Americas
"[Hordes] reasons from past to present, and the present back to the past, constructing a message about the role of history in understanding how we see ourselves and how others see us." — El Palacio
"Like a skilled tracker, Hordes pursues a prey at pains to cover its tracks, linking the bold 15th- and 16th-century persecution of Iberian Jews to a faint crypto-Jewish persistence in 21st-century New Mexico. Original, persuasive, humane." — John Kessell, University of New Mexico, author of Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California
"A pathfinding work of collective biography and ethnohistory. Hordes makes a fundamental contribution to emerging social structure in New Mexico and the Southwest, authoritatively researched in Iberian and Mexican archives. This book breaks new ground in Diaspora studies. It illuminates the rewarding possibility of research in Inquisition trials, and the valuable data in Inquisition records outside of the trials per se. It documents the often-held view that there is other gold in the Indies." — Richard Greenleaf, professor emeritus of colonial Latin American history, Tulane University, author of The Mexican Inquisition of the Sixteenth Century