ut from the New; h
e founds not a new Sevilla, nor a new Cordoba, but a new Mexico. By 1598, another form of "writing" has entered and profoundly altered the economy of conquest: the discourse of law. In 1519, Cortes brashly sets his ships to sail against his orders, and proceeds with an unauthorized and generally improvised spectacular expedition on the continent. In 1598, Onate sets out to conquer New Mexico under the watchful auspices of the Crown and in
- accordance with a me
- ticulously detailed legal contract that took no less t
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- ears of bureaucratic wrangling in royal court
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- of Spanish se
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- A wide variety of measuring and testing equipment (height gauges, pins, micrometers, calipers, inside micrometers, etc.)
