| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. By Juliana Barr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 397 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3082-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5790-8.)

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman focuses on the borderlands of the Texas region where Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches drew the Spanish and French into an Indian world. Juliana Barr demonstrates how indigenous peoples retained control over their homelands and forced Europeans to accommodate to Indian ways. This is an alternative model of encounter, one in which demographics, access to limited resources, and indigenous social structures were more important than Europe's technological superiority. Barr suggests that these encounters were shaped by the kin-based nature of Indian communities and by the communities' long-established diplomatic practices and rituals, and social structures that often rested on matrilineal households.

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