
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman
Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
Juliana Barr(Author)
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 30. March 2007
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-8078-3082-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8078-3082-6 (9780807830826)
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11/2009
The University of North Carolina Press
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JULIANA BARR is assistant professor of history at the University of Florida.