Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-320) and index.
Contents:
Who controls the king? / Alfredo Jiménez -- Social control on Spain's contested Florida frontier / Jane Landers -- Spanish control over a multiethnic society : Louisiana, 1763-1803 / Gilbert C. Din -- "They conceal a malice most refined" : controlling social and ethnic mobility in late colonial New Mexico / Ross Frank -- Subverting the social order : gender, power, and magic in Nueva Vizcaya / Susan M. Deeds -- Social control and native territoriality in northeastern New Spain / Cecilia Sheridan -- Beyond their control : Spaniards in native Texas / Juliana Barr -- The común, local governance, and defiance in colonial Sonora / Cynthia Radding -- Racialized hierarchies of power in colonial Mexican society : the sistema de castas as a form of social control in Saltillo / José Cuello -- Colonization and control-the case of Nuevo Santander / Patricia Osante -- Social control within missionary frontier society : Alta California, 1769-1821 / James A. Sandos.
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