Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule

by Matthew Babcock

Book Overview

As a definitive study of the poorly understood Apaches de paz, this book explains how war-weary, mutually suspicious Apaches and Spaniards negotiated an ambivalent compromise after 1786 that produced over four decades of uneasy peace across the region. In response to drought and military pressure, thousands of Apaches settled near Spanish presidios in a system of reservation-like establecimientos, or settlements, stretching from Laredo to Tucson...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107121388
• ISBN13: 9781107121386
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.5"