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Twilight of the mission frontier : shifting interethnic alliances and social organization in Sonora, 1768-1855 /
Twilight of the Mission Frontier examines the long process of mission decline in Sonora, Mexico after the Jesuit expulsion in 1767. By reassessing the mission crisis paradigm-which speaks of a growing internal crisis leading to the secularization of the missions in the early nineteenth century-new l...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Representing the Sonoran Landscape: Geographical Descriptions of Sonora in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; A Note on the Identification of Indian Groups in Sonora; The Creation of Space; The Early Eighteenth Century; The Effects of Peace in the Mid-Eighteenth Century; Spatial Organization Projects in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century; The Reinvention of Sonora; Chapter 2. Population Trends in the Mission Districts of Sonora; The Franciscan Missions in Sonora after 1767; Pimería Alta.
- Pimería BajaOpatería; Chapter 3. Changes in the Lifeways of Indian Towns; Loving God in Indian Country; The Ambiguity of Location: Living among Christians versus Becoming a Christian; Changes in Governing Structures of Indian Communities; Changes in the Everyday Life of Frontier Societies; Indian and Spanish Material Culture; Frontier Horizontal Mobility; Interethnic Alliances in the Transformation of Sonora'sNorthern Frontier; Pluriethnic Bands in Sonora; The Protector of Indians; When Mission Residents Ceased To Be "Mission Indians."
- Chapter 4. Sonora's Frontier Economy in the Late Colonial Period: A Captive Trade NetworkThe Economic Transition as a Conceptual Problem; The Sonoran Economy in the Mid-Eighteenth Century; Scarce Currency and the "Labyrinth of Prices"; The Fagoaga-Ximénez Company and Sonora's Captive Clientele; Price Increases: Taxes, Freight Charges, and Forms of Fraud; Payment Systems for Goods and Wages; Commerce and Forms of Coercion; Chapter 5. Local Adaptations of the Franciscan Mission Regime; The Mission Regime When the Franciscans Arrived in Sonora.
- New Mode of Governance: Custody of San Carlos de SonoraReaction against the Custody; Dissolution of the Custody; Changes in Mission Administration and Generational Crisis; The Communal Properties of Franciscan Missions in Sonora; Generational Crisis in the Pimería Alta Missionary District; Chapter 6. Leaving Sonora; The Expulsion of Spaniards and Its Aftermath in Pimería Alta; Secularism and Mission Secularization in Pimería Baja and Opatería; Conclusions; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.