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Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain's North American Frontiers. Edited by Jesús F. de la Teja and Ross Frank. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xxi + 338 pp. Glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95, paper.)
      Each essay in this collection, sponsored by the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at SMU, comes up with a different answer to the central question: How did the vast Spanish empire control subjects on its northern margins? The result is a finely nuanced view of the Spanish imperial effort, going beyond the standard conception of the "empire of inclusion" to show a picture of a complex and dynamic world where social control was exercised, rejected, and negotiated at many levels. . . .
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