The Yaquis and the empire: violence, Spanish imperial power, and native resilience in colonial Mexico
In: The Lamar series in western history
Introduction : imperial ironies -- A failed conquest : the northwest before the Jesuits, 1500-1591 -- A Mestizo conquest: 1590-1610 -- The Jesuit reduction : the birth of the Yaqui mission towns, 1610-1617 -- Mission and empire -- Cracks in the foundation : early Bourbon reforms and the breakdown of negotiated peace, 1700-1740 -- "Now God wants all this to end" : the shattering of the colonial pact, 1740-1744 -- Reorientations : the collapse of the mission and the rebirth of the Yaqui towns, 1744-1810 -- Epilogue : republican ironies