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Contested Ground - Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire (Paperback)
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Contested Ground - Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire (Paperback)
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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. The authors also show how ecological and
historical differences between the northern and southern frontiers
produced intellectual differences as well. In North America, the
frontier came to be viewed as a land of opportunity and a crucible
of democracy; in the south, it was considered a spawning ground of
barbarism and despotism. By exploring issues of ethnicity and
gender as well as the different facets of indigenous resistance,
both violent and nonviolent, these essays point up both the
vitality and the volatility of the frontier as a place where power
was constantly being contested and negotiated.
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