Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands - Softcover

Barr, Juliana

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ISBN 10: 0807857904 ISBN 13: 9780807857908

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007

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Deserves to be reckoned with by future scholarship on colonial Texas. . . . Provides . . . fundamental contributions to the historiography on colonial Texas.--Catholic Southwest Juliana Barr . . . brings us a brilliant re-analysis of the interactions of the Native Americans and Spaniards across the frontier . . . . With remarkable insight and cultural perspicuity, Barr filters the early Texas history story through a new historical lens. . . . From the book's opening Introduction, the reader is stunned with the inversion of historical understanding.--East Texas Historical Journal A carefully researched account of historical interactions.--North Dakota Quarterly A highly valuable contribution to the indigenous historiography of the southwestern borderlands in the early period of European contact.--Journal of Southern History Contributes to a fundamental debate in North American history. . . . Well-written and insightful.--Arkansas Historical Review [Barr's] conclusions are compelling . . . . Everyone who studies the Spanish borderlands, Native Americans, or women needs to read this book.--CHOICE An important analysis of Spanish-Indian relations in a borderlands region where Indian power stayed remarkably strong. Through her recovery of the stories of women, Barr shows that, at least until the nineteenth century, gender remained a stronger influence than race on those always volatile relationships.--Church History Transforming enemies into allies took decades, and Barr offers a way to begin revising and rethinking the literature on these . . . encounters.--The Journal of American History Rich, complex, and detailed. . . . A well-crafted and thoughtful work that does much to alter the landscape of American history.--Signs A field-changing work. . . . The first to show how really essential gender is to contact studies.--William and Mary Quarterly Engaging and beautifully written. . . . Provides vivid accounts of Indian power and the gendered ways it was expressed.--Western Historical Quarterly Barr skillfully blends anthropology and Spanish sources to present a complicated picture that revises the standard narrative of Spanish colonial Texas. . . . A nuanced picture of the shifting ground upon which Spanish-Indian relations were built, and the importance of tapping into indigenous understandings of diplomacy in order to more completely comprehend these cultural encounters.--New Mexico Historical Review Historiographically significant and beautifully written, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman will enjoy a wide readership among those interested in early American, Native American, and Borderlands history.--Journal of American Ethnic History A fine book in every respect, clearly written, persuasive, solidly documented, and useful for both student and scholar alike. . . . Encourages scholars to look anew at areas where Indians met Europeans.--Hispanic American Historical Review A superbly crafted contribution to the growing literature that places Native Americans at the center of the struggle for control of eighteenth-century North America. . . . This finely conceptualized and beautifully executed book easily ranks on the short list of essential reading for scholars of Native American history.--Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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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. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of imperial control. Instead of being defined in racial terms, as was often the case with European constructions of power, diplomatic relations between the Indians and Spaniards in the region were dictated by Indian expressions of power, grounded in gendered terms of kinship. By examining six realms of encounter - first contact, settlement and intermarriage, mission life, warfare, diplomacy, and captivity - Barr shows that native categories of gender provided the political structure of Indian-Spanish relations by defining people's identity, status, and obligations vis-a-vis others. Because native systems of kin-based social and political order predominated, argues Barr, Indian concepts of gender cut across European perceptions of racial difference.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0807857904
• ISBN 13: 9780807857908
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416