Choice, persuasion, and coercion : social control on Spain's North American frontiers / edited by Jes? de la Teja and Ross Frank. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2005. - xxi, 338 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-320) and index.

Who controls the king? / Alfredo Jim鮥z -- Social control on Spain's contested Florida frontier / Jane Landers -- Spanish control over a multiethnic society : Louisiana, 1763-1803 / Gilbert C. Din -- "They conceal a malice most refined" : controlling social and ethnic mobility in late colonial New Mexico / Ross Frank -- Subverting the social order : gender, power, and magic in Nueva Vizcaya / Susan M. Deeds -- Social control and native territoriality in northeastern New Spain / Cecilia Sheridan -- Beyond their control : Spaniards in native Texas / Juliana Barr -- The com?ocal governance, and defiance in colonial Sonora / Cynthia Radding -- Racialized hierarchies of power in colonial Mexican society : the sistema de castas as a form of social control in Saltillo / Jos頃uello -- Colonization and control-the case of Nuevo Santander / Patricia Osante -- Social control within missionary frontier society : Alta California, 1769-1821 / James A. Sandos.

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Spaniards--Politics and government--North America
Social control--History--North America
Frontier and pioneer life--North America
Ethnicity--History--North America
Indians of North America--Government relations--To 1789
Indians of North America--Government relations--17891869


North America--Ethnic relations
North America--Social conditions
Spain--Colonies--America
North America--History--Colonial period ca 16001775

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