Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North : : Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya / / Susan M. Deeds.

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• VerfasserIn: Deeds, Susan M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)

In their efforts to impose colonial rule on Nueva Vizcaya from the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, Spaniards established missions among the principal Indian groups of present-day eastern Sinaloa, northern Durango, and southern Chihuahua, Mexico—the Xiximes, Acaxees, Conchos, Tepe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Spanish Entradas and Indigenous Responses in Topia and Tepehuana, 1560–1620
• 2. Environment and Culture
• 3. A Counterfeit Peace, 1620–1690
• 4. Crises of the 1690s: Rebellion, Famine, and Disease
• 5. Defiance and Deference in Transitional Spaces, 1700–1730s
• 6. Jesuits Take Stock: Cosmic Intent and Local Coincidence
• 7. ‘‘Stuck Together with Pins’’: The Unraveling of the Mission Fabric
• 8. Rendering unto Caesar at the Crossroads of Ethnicity and Identity
• Conclusions
• Notes
• Glossary
• Archival Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Index