Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880.

Abstract

volume traces the evolution and interaction of Native groups, Hispanic soldiers and settlers, and pioneers and the clash of national powers in the Against the backdrop of global and regional processes, Hall chronicles the way previously autonomous groups were transformed into ethnic minorities, some groups were destroyed, and others were assimilated and survived. A ground-breaking volume that merits serious consideration by all scholars who are interested in understanding the development of the Southwest. American Anthropologist This book will have an impact on Mexican and national histories. . . . Scholars and history enthusiasts of the Borderlands and the West will benefit greatly from Instructors who teach either of these fields should not fail to assign it; their students will be richer for having read it. Journal of History This is an impressive book. It should be evaluated within two genres. The first is other histories of frontier interaction in the U.S. In this context it is very clear that Hall's book will replace earlier works as the standard. The second genre is now a large corpus of studies that closely examine the processes of incorporation and peripheralization into the expanding Europe-centered world-system as they occur within a particular region. . . . In this context Hall's is certainly one of the very best. Christopher Chase Dunn in Contemporary Sociology