Contested ground : comparative frontiers on the northern and southern edges of the Spanish Empire / edited by Donna J. Guy and Thomas E. Sheridan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guy, Donna J.

Sheridan, Thomas E.

Series:

Southwest Center series

The Southwest Center series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life.

Latin America--History.

Latin America.

History.

Frontier and pioneer life--Latin America.

Frontier thesis.

Physical Description:

vi, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1998]

Contents:

On frontiers : the northern and southern edges of the Spanish Empire in the Americas / Donna J. Guy and Thomas E. Sheridan

The Jesuit mission frontier in comparative perspective : the reductions of the Río de la Plata and the missions of northwestern Mexico, 1588-1700 / Daniel T. Reff

Indigenous rebellions on the northern Mexican mission frontier : from first-generation to later colonial responses / Susan M. Deeds

The colonial pact and changing ethnic frontiers in highland Sonora, 1740-1840 / Cynthia Radding

Women of the Buenos Aires frontier, 1740-1810 (or the gaucho turned upside down) / Susan Migden Socolow

Spanish colonial military strategy and ideology / Richard W. Slatta

Comparative raiding economies : north and south / Kristine L. Jones

Interethnic conflict and resistance on the Brazilian frontier of Goiás, 1750-1890 / Mary Karasch

North to the Yerbales : the exploitation of the Paraguayan frontier, 1776-1810 / Jerry W. Cooney

The Río de la Plata and the greater Southwest : a view from world-system theory / Thomas D. Hall

The frontier as an arena of social and economic change : wealth distribution in nineteenth-century Buenos Aires Province / Lyman L. Johnson

Two, three, many barbarisms? : the Chihuahuan frontier in transition from society to politics / Daniel Nugent.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-259) and index.

ISBN:

0816518599

0816518602

OCLC:

37418325