Sponsored by Southern Methodist University's

William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
The DeGolyer Library
Friends of the SMU Libraries/Colophon
and
Carlos Garcia de Alba Zepeda, the General Consul of Mexico in Dallas

 Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages
in the Age of Enlightenment

Award Ceremony, Lecture and Reception in Honor of

David J. Weber

On behalf of the Government of Mexico, Carlos García de Alba Zepeda, the General Consul of Mexico in Dallas, will bestow the medal of the “Aguila Azteca” on David Weber in recognition of his extensive work on the history of Mexico and relations between Mexico and the United States.

David Weber will then introduce his new book, Bárbaros, published by Yale University Press, which tells the story of how Spain’s eighteenth-century administrators tried and sometimes succeeded in fashioning an enlightened policy toward the people they called bárbaros or “savages” – people who controlled over half of the area that Spain claimed in the western hemisphere. 

An exhibition in the DeGolyer Library, "Colonial Encounters: Spaniards and Frontier Indians in the Americas" will be open this evening and will be on display through February 23, 2005.  Hours of the DeGolyer Library are Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.  For more information, please call 214-768-2012.