Peace came in the form of a woman

Barr, Juliana.

Peace came in the form of a woman Indians and Spaniards in the Texas borderlands / [electronic resource] : Juliana Barr. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007. - xi, 397 p. : ill., maps.

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. [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 alliances of norteño manhood : the road to truce and treaty -- Womanly "captivation" : political economies of hostage taking and hospitality.


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2013.
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Indians of North America--History--Texas--18th century.
Indian captivities--History--Texas--18th century.
Spaniards--History--Texas--18th century.
Missions, Spanish--History--Texas--18th century.
Women and peace--History--Texas--18th century.
Women--Social conditions--Texas--18th century.
Diplomacy--History--Texas--18th century.


Texas--History--To 1846.


Electronic books.

E78.T4 / B37 2007eb

976.4004/97