The following book has just been released by U.Ariz. Press. For WSNers
interested indigenous relations and early colonization in the western
hemisphere it may be of interest.
You can find the following in html under Chapters on my home page.
tom
Thomas D. [tom] Hall
thall@depauw.edu
Department of Sociology
DePauw University
100 Center Street
Greencastle, IN 46135
765-658-4519
HOME PAGE:
http://www.depauw.edu/~thall/hp1.htm
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A new book on Latin American Frontiers
Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and
Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire, 1998. Edited by Donna Guy
and Thomas Sheridan, University of Arizona Press. ISBN 0-8165-
1860-2.
The Spanish Empire in the Americas spanned two continents and a
vast diversity of peoples and landscapes. yet intriguing
parallels characterized conquest, colonization, and indigenous
resistance along its northern and southern frontiers, from the
role played by Jesuit missions in the subjugation of native
peoples to the emergence of livestock industries with their
attendant cowboys and gauchos and threats of Indian raids.
In this book, nine historians, three anthropologists, and one
sociologist compare and contrast these fringes of New Spain
between 1500 and 1880, showing that in each region the frontier
represented contested ground where different cultures and
polities clashed in ways heretofore little understood. The
contributors reveal similarities in Indian-white relations,
military policy, economic development, and social structure; and
they show differences in instances such as the emergence of a
major urban center in the south and the activities of rival
powers.
By exploring issues of ethnicity and gender as well as different
facets of indigenous resistance, both violent and nonviolent,
these essays point up the vitality and volatility of the frontier
as a place where power was continually contested and negotiated.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Maps viii
1. On Frontiers: The Northern and Southern edges of the Spanish
Empire in the Americas.
Donna J. Guy and Thomas E. Sheridan 3
2. The Jesuit Mission Frontier in Comparative Perspective: The
Reductions of the Rio de la Plata and the Missions of
Northwestern Mexico, 1599-1700.
Daniel T. Reff 16
3. Indigenous Rebellions on the Northern Mexican Mission
Frontier: From First-Generation to Later Colonial Responses
Susan M. Deeds 32
4. The Colonial Pact and Changing Ethnic Frontiers in Highland
Sonora, 1740-1840.
Cynthia Radding 52
5. Women of the Buenos Aires Frontier, 1740-1810 (or the Gaucho
Turned Upside Down).
Susan Migden Socolow 67
6. Spanish Colonial Military Strategy and Ideology.
Richard W. Slatta 83
7. Comparative Raiding Economies: North and South
Kristine L. Jones 97
8. Interethnic Conlflict and Resistance on the Brazilian
Frontier of Goias, 1750-1890.
Mary Karasch 115
9. North to the Yerbales: The Exploitation of the Paraguayan
Frontier, 1776-1810.
Jerry W. Cooney 135
10. Rio de La Plata and The Greater Southwest: A View From A
World-Systems Perspective.
Thomas D. Hall 150
11. The Frontier as an Arena of Social and Economic Change:
Wealth Distribution in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires Province.
Lyman L. Johnson 167
12. Two, Three, Many Barbarisms? The Chihuahua Frontier in
Transition for Society to Politics.
Daniel Nugent 182
Notes 201
Bibliography 221
About the Contributor 261
About the Editors 263
Index 265