Peace came in the form of a woman : Indians and Spaniards in the Texas borderlands / / Juliana Barr.

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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:xi, 397 p. :; ill., maps.
Notes:"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
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Table of Contents:
  • Diplomatic ritual in the "land of the Tejas"
  • Political kinship through settlement and marriage
  • Civil alliance and "civility" in mission-presidio complexes
  • Negotiating fear with violence : Apaches and Spaniards at midcentury
  • Contests and alliances of norteno manhood : the road to truce and treaty
  • Womanly "captivation" : political economies of hostage taking and hospitality.