Captives & cousins: slavery, kinship, and community in the Southwest borderlands / James F. Brooks

Chapel Hill [North Carolina]; London [England]: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Signed. Physical description: 419 pages: illustrations, maps. Contents: Violence, exchange, and the honor of men -- Llaneros: creating a Plains borderland -- Pastores: creating a pastoral borderland -- Montaneses: traversing borderlands -- Elaborating the Plains borderlands -- Commerce, kinship, and coercion -- Peaks and valleys: the borderlands speak -- Closer and closer apart -- Epilogue: Refugio Gurriola Martinez -- Chronology -- Glossary of Spanish and Native American terms -- Appendix A: Navajo livestock and captive raids, 1780-1864 -- Appendix B: New Mexican livestock and captive raids, 1780-1864 -- Appendix C: New Mexican peonage and slavery hearings, 1868 -- Acknowledgments. Subjects: Slavery History Southwest, New. Sex role History Southwest, New.Culture conflict History Southwest, New. Spaniards Social conditions Southwest, New.