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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: 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 |
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| 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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- Indians of North America -- Texas -- History -- 18th century.
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- Women and peace -- Texas -- History -- 18th century.
- Women -- Texas -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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