208 Pages
    by Routledge

    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    An intensive exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanches and Caddoans during Spain's occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), McCollough focuses on the relationship between political and economic conditions and patterns of settlement, production and social reproduction. Challenging historical views that structure a dichotomy of the colonizers and the colonized, this study examines global, regional and local populations as it details the points of interface between Euro-American markets, Native American commodities and indigenous social groups in this early colonial period.

    1. The Colonial Imperative and Indigenous Perspectives 2. Interactions of the Comanches and Hasinais Prior to the Reservation Era 3. Ethnohistoric Interpretations of Post Contact Comanches and Hasinais 4. World Systems Perspective 5. Regional Analysis 6. Social History 7. Conclusion

    Biography

    Martha McCollough

    "This is a fine work..." -- David La Vere, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
    "...the book is of indisputable importance because it highlights the connections between Native groups with diverse modes of making a living that juggled the presence of colonial powers to maximize their position within emergent colonial economies." -- Maria F. Wade, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin