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Children of coyote, missionaries of Saint Francis : Indian-Spanish relations in colonial California, 1769-1850 /

Publisher description: Recovering lost voices and exploring issues intimate and institutional, this sweeping examination of Spanish California illuminates Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation. To capture the enormous challenges Indians confronted, Ste...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hackel, Steven W.
Corporate Author: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©2005.
Series:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. People and institutions of Colonial California
  • Indians
  • Spaniards
  • Dual revolutions and the Missions: ecological change and demographic collapse
  • pt. 2. Interaction
  • Indians and the Franciscan religious program
  • Marriage and sexuality
  • Social control, political accommodation, and Indian rebellion
  • Indian labor in the Missions, presidios, and pueblos: economic integration, cultural resistance, and survival
  • Punishment, justice, and hierarchy
  • pt. 3. Collapse of the colonial order
  • The era of secularization: land and liberty.