Peace came in the form of a woman [electronic resource] : Indians and Spaniards in the Texas borderlands / Juliana Barr.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.Description: xi, 397 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): - Indians of North America -- Texas -- History -- 18th century
- Indian captivities -- Texas -- History -- 18th century
- Spaniards -- Texas -- History -- 18th century
- Missions, Spanish -- Texas -- History -- 18th century
- Women and peace -- Texas -- History -- 18th century
- Women -- Texas -- Social conditions -- 18th century
- Diplomacy -- Texas -- History -- 18th century
- Texas -- History -- To 1846
- 976.4004/97 22
- E78.T4 B37 2007eb
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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