Social Change in the Southwest: 1350 - 1880

Thomas D. Hall

1989. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas

Preface xiii

1 Introduction 1

• 2 Social Change and the Southwest: Theoretical and Geographical Background 8
• 3 The Southwest: The Region, The Peoples, and Prehistory 33
• 4 The Formation of Spanish Frontier Policy and the Cycle of Endemic Warfare 50
• 5 Endemic Warfare and Ethnic Relations on the Spanish Frontier: The Formation of a Region of Refuge 75
• 6 Frontier Peace: Policies and Strategies of Pacification in the Last Years of Spanish Control 110
• 7 Bourbon Reforms, Mexican Independence and the Advent of the Gringo: Transformations of a Region of Refuge 134
• 8 The Sources of the American Conquest of the Southwest 167
• 9 The Consolidation of the American Conquest of the Southwest 204
• 10 Conclusions, Questions, Speculations 237

• References 249
• Index 275