Abstract
Book Review Essay – Arredondo: Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain, by Bradley Folsom. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. – Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest, by William S. Kiser. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. – Wars for Empire: Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands, by Janne Lahti. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. – Soldiers in the Southwest Borderlands, 1848-1886, edited by Janne Lahti. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. – The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands, by Veronica Castillo-Munoz. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017.
Highlights
– Arredondo: Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain, by Bradley Folsom
Soldiers played an important role, but non-military settlers, civilians, and indigenous people often proved faster and more willing to reach for violent solutions to problems than the agents of the state did
Borderlands life featured challenges posed by unforgiving environments, cultural contacts, international borders, and the frictions that inevitably occurred when nations, empires, tribes, and other groups of people collided with each other
Summary
– Arredondo: Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain, by Bradley Folsom. – Wars for Empire: Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands, by Janne Lahti. His methods left borderland communities vulnerable to Indian raids that weakened Spain and, later, Mexico.
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