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Peace came in the form of a woman : Indians and Spaniards in the Texas borderlands

Author: Juliana Barr; William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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Barr, Juliana.
Peace came in the form of a woman.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007
(OCoLC)608368958
Online version:
Barr, Juliana.
Peace came in the form of a woman.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007
(OCoLC)609329278
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Juliana Barr; William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
ISBN: 9780807830826 0807830828 9780807857908 0807857904
OCLC Number: 71146367
Notes: "Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Description: xi, 397 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Juliana Barr.
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Abstract:

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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