Peace came in the form of a woman : Indians and Spaniards in the Texas borderlands /
Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere.
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Chapel Hill :
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- pt. 1. Turn-of-the-century beginnings, 1680s-1720s
- 1. Diplomatic ritual in the "land of the Tejas"
- 2. Political kinship through settlement and marriage
- pt. 2. From contact to conversion : bridging religion and politics, 1720s-1760s
- 3. Civil alliance and "civility" in mission-presidio complexes
- 4. Negotiating fear with violence : Apaches and Spaniards at midcentury
- pt. 3. New codes of war and peace, 1760s-1780s
- 5. Contests and alliances of norteño manhood : the road to truce and treaty
- 6. Womanly "captivation" : political economies of hostage taking and hospitality
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
