Choice, persuasion, and coercion
Subtitle: social control on Spain's North American frontiers
By: edited by Jesús F. de la Teja and Ross Frank.
Contributors: Teja, Jesús F. de la, 1956-; Frank, Ross, 1957-
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Spaniards -- North America -- Politics and government.; Social control -- North America -- History.; Frontier and pioneer life -- North America.; Ethnicity -- North America -- History.; Indians of North America -- Government relations -- To 1789.; Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1789-1869.; North America -- Ethnic relations.; North America -- Social conditions.; Spain -- Colonies -- America.; North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-320) and index.
Table of contents: title: Who controls the king? / Alfredo Jiménez; title: Social control on Spain's contested Florida frontier / Jane Landers; title: Spanish control over a multiethnic society : Louisiana, 1763-1803 / Gilbert C. Din; title: "They conceal a malice most refined" : controlling social and ethnic mobility in late colonial New Mexico / Ross Frank; title: Subverting the social order : gender, power, and magic in Nueva Vizcaya / Susan M. Deeds; title: Social control and native territoriality in northeastern New Spain / Cecilia Sheridan; title: Beyond their control : Spaniards in native Texas / Juliana Barr; title: The común, local governance, and defiance in colonial Sonora / Cynthia Radding; title: Racialized hierarchies of power in colonial Mexican society : the sistema de castas as a form of social control in Saltillo / José Cuello; title: Colonization and control-the case of Nuevo Santander / Patricia Osante; title: Social control within missionary frontier society : Alta California, 1769-1821 / James A. Sandos.