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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. xi + 397 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95, paper.)
      In his 1770s history of Texas, Spanish friar Juan Agustín Morfi had to admit that "though we still call ourselves [Texas's] masters, we do not exercise dominion over a foot of land beyond San Antonio" (p. 3). Juliana Barr's own engaging and beautifully written history echoes Morfi's conclusion, arguing that Indians dominated colonial Texas. Their longstanding gendered practices of diplomacy formed the basis of political and economic relationships throughout the eighteenth century. . . .
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