| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850. By Steven W. Hackel. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xx, 476 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2988-9. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5654-1.)

Steven W. Hackel has written a rich and rewarding contribution to the scholarship on missions of colonial California. His study focuses on the intersections of Indian and Spanish worlds and covers an extraordinary period between 1769 and 1850 when the establishment of missions was followed rapidly by Mexican independence and then U.S. rule. Using the mission San Carlos Borromeo as a case study, Hackel brings out the paradoxes of a system that was "anachronistic, self-defeating, and contradictory in its expectations" (p. 2). Throughout, he seeks to incorporate his subject into an understanding of American history and to establish connections with the historiography of colonial Spanish America and, where relevant, of early modern Europe.

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