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    Peace Came in the Form of a Woman
    Peace Came in the Form of a Woman
    <b>Revising the standard narrative of European - Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere.</b> She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of imperial control.<br/>Barr argues that Indians not only retained control over their territories but also imposed control over Spaniards. Instead of being defined in racial terms, as was often the case with European constructions of power, diplomatic relations between the Indians and Spaniards in the region were dictated by Indian expressions of power, grounded in gendered terms of kinship. By examining six realms of encounter - first contact, settlement and intermarriage, mission life, warfare, diplomacy, and captivity - Barr shows that native categories of gender provided the political structure of Indian - Spanish relations by defining people's identity, status, and obligations vis - a - vis others. Because native systems of kin - based social and political order predominated, argues Barr, Indian concepts of gender cut across European perceptions of racial difference.<br/>
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    Book Author
    Juliana Barr
    Genre History
    Binding
    PERFECT BINDING (PAPERBACK)
    Format
    Large Print 16 Pt Edition (Standard Large Print)
    ISBN
    9781459634763
    Publisher
    UNC Press
    Age Range
    General
    Approximate delivery

    Up to 20 business days (?)

    Publication Date
    02-Feb-2012

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