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France V. Scholes: Historian of New Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Richard E. Greenleaf*
Affiliation:
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Extract

WHEN France Vinton Scholes received the Serra Award of the Academy of American Franciscan History in 1956, one of his distinguished colleagues remarked to me that “Scholes is a historian's historian.” Those of us who had the privilege to work with him, students and colleagues, also knew him as a master teacher and an ideal university administrator. In 1969 when the University of New Mexico administration building was named for its former Academic Vice President and Graduate Dean, we told him that it had always been “Scholes Hall ” for us.

Type
Dedication
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1971

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References

1 p. xiv.

2 J. Eric S. Thompson, Review of The Maya Chontal Indians of Acalan-Tixel by Scholes, France V. and Roys, Ralph, Journal of Latin American Studies, 1 (1969), pp. 189190.Google Scholar Review of second edition (Norman, 1968).

3 Adams, Eleanor B. and Chávez, Fray Angelico, trans, and eds., The Missions of New Mexico, 1776. A Description by Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez with Other Contemporary Documents (Albuquerque, 1956), p. xix.Google Scholar

4 Scholes, France V., The Spanish Conqueror as a Business Man: A Chapter in the History of Fernando Cortés (Albuquerque, 1957), pp. 89.Google Scholar

5 Scholes, France V. and Adams, Eleanor B., Documentos para la Historia del México Colonial (7 vols.; México, D. F., 1955–1961).Google Scholar