RECENT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE FRONTIERS OF SPANISH AMERICA

Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. By David J. Weber. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. xvii -I- 466 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth).

Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850. By Steven W. Hackel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xx + 476 pp. Maps, photographs, illustrations, graphs, tables, notes, glossary, appendix, index. $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain's North American Frontier. Edited by Jesus F. de la Teja and Ross Frank. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. Notes, bibliography, glossary, index. $24.95 (paper).

Robert H. Jackson
Office of Federal Acknowledgment Department of the Interior

These three books explore in different ways the historical development of Spanish colonial frontiers in the Americas with two focusing on the northern frontier of Mexico. Taken together they reflect the growth and maturity of studies of the fringes of Spanish territory in North and South America and are important contributions to this field.