Michael Brescia

Professor, History | Curator, Ethnohistory | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Curator | Head, Research - Arizona State Museum

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Recent

The Long View of Arizona History

2022

Cultura entre la muchedumbre y el rincón solitario

2022

“El régimen del derecho antiguo mexicano en Estados Unidos: El relato del billonario, los surfistas y el conflicto entre la propiedad privada y el acceso público a la playa.” The Old Mexican Law Regimen in the United States: The Story of the Billionaire, Surfers, and the Conflict between Private Property and Public Beach Access)

2020

Libraries at the Intersection of Las Dos Majestades in Colonial Mexico: The Biblioteca Palafoxiana as Emblem of Change and Continuity from Habsburg to Bourbon Rule.

2020

Natural Resources and the Law in Hispanic Arizona: The Babocomari Ranch and the Living Legacies of the Gadsden Purchase

2016

Agrarian Lifeways and Judicial Transitions for Hispanic Families in Anglo California: Sources for Legal History in the Autry National Center of the American West

2015

The Spanish Element in Western Water Law: Views from Arizona

2015

Bridging Troubled Waters: Historians, Natural Resources, and the Expert Witness Phenomenon

2015

Guest Editor of the Special Issue, The Historian as Expert Witness

2015

The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art. WILLIAM FIELD, executive director; ROBIN FARWELL GAVIN, chief curator; PATRICIA PRICE, curator of education; http:www.spanishcolonial.org/

2007

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Michael Brescia

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Grants(3)

Publications(11)

The Long View of Arizona History

Cultura entre la muchedumbre y el rincón solitario

Libraries at the Intersection of Las Dos Majestades in Colonial Mexico: The Biblioteca Palafoxiana as Emblem of Change and Continuity from Habsburg to Bourbon Rule.

Natural Resources and the Law in Hispanic Arizona: The Babocomari Ranch and the Living Legacies of the Gadsden Purchase

Agrarian Lifeways and Judicial Transitions for Hispanic Families in Anglo California: Sources for Legal History in the Autry National Center of the American West

The Spanish Element in Western Water Law: Views from Arizona

Bridging Troubled Waters: Historians, Natural Resources, and the Expert Witness Phenomenon

Guest Editor of the Special Issue, The Historian as Expert Witness

The Museum of Spanish Colonial Art. WILLIAM FIELD, executive director; ROBIN FARWELL GAVIN, chief curator; PATRICIA PRICE, curator of education; http:www.spanishcolonial.org/

News(12)

UA Employees, Programs Honored

New Photographic Exhibit Reveals 'A World Separated By Borders'

U.S.-Mexico Treaty Excerpts on Display at UA

UA Professor Receives Fulbright for Research in Canada

Arizona State Museum Exhibit Highlights History of Mexico

Courses(5)

Societal and Institutional Systems

Introduction to the Study of History

Comparative History of North America

Natural Resources and the Law in the Spanish Borderlands of North America

World History for Future Educators