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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.Description: xi, 397 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780807830826
  • 0807830828
  • 9780807857908
  • 0807857904
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Peace came in the form of a woman.; Online version:: Peace came in the form of a woman.DDC classification:
  • 976.4004/97 22
LOC classification:
  • E78.T4 B37 2007
Online resources:
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 allianc
Awards:
  • Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, 2007
Summary: 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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Books Books Odessa College Stacks 976.4 B268 PEACE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 51994001728494

"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-388) and index.

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 allianc

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.

Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, 2007

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