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This volume considers how Spains monarchs faced competing economic, political, and racial interests. In the New World, others besides the rulers, authorities, and elites sought to effect social control. Ethnic groups and socio-economic classes within colonial communities also exercised control within their own circles. Institutions including the Church, schools, fraternal organizations, and families labored to teach their members to understand their place in society.

An examination of social control mechanisms shows how groups and individuals, including native peoples, formed and understood their options in response to colonial rule. These essays seek to understand how people negotiated their relationships with the Spanish state and institutions, and with each other, while conceiving of the frontier region as an incubator of cultural and economic interactions ranging from acceptance to rejection of European norms, often altering those norms in the process.

"Published in cooperation with the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University"

Contributors:

Juliana Barr is assistant professor atthe University of Florida.
Susan M. Deeds is professor of history at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
Jos Cuello directed the Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit from 1989 through 2001.
Gilbert C. Din is professor emeritus, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado.
Alfredo Jimnez is professor emeritus in the department of American History, Universidad de Sevilla.
Jane Landers is associate dean of the College of Arts & Science, and associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University
Patricia Osante is a researcher in the Historical Institute of Research and coordinates the Northern Mexican History Seminar at the same university.
Cynthia Radding is Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico.
James A. Sandos is Farquhar Professor of the Southwest at the University of Redlands in southern California.
Cecilia Sheridan Prieto works as researcher in the Saltillo, Coahuila, branch of the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologa Social.