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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction 12 1. An Ideal Friendship: Classical Interpretations and Everyday Reality 40 2. Civilizing the Frontier: Soldiers, Missionaries, and Indios Amigos 78 3. The Many Faces of Betrayal: Kino and the Coded World of Friendship 107 4. Internal Enemies: False Friendship and the Collapse of Moral Order 125 5. The Paradox of Friendship: Violence and the Ambiguities of Social Inequality 153 Conclusion 179 Notes 184 Index 236 About the Author 240 Publisher:University of Arizona Press,Published:2019,ISBN:9780816540648,Related ISBN:9780816538805,Language:English,OCLC:1129030325 For millennia friendships have framed the most intimate and public contours of our everyday lives. In this book, Ignacio Martínez tells the multilayered story of how the ideals, logic, rhetoric, and emotions of friendship helped structure an early yet remarkably nuanced, fragile, and sporadic form of civil society (societas civilis) at the furthest edges of the Spanish Empire. Spaniards living in the isolated borderlands region of colonial Sonora were keen to develop an ideologically relevant and socially acceptable form of friendship with Indigenous
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- Author
- Ignacio Martínez
- Publisher
- The University of Arizona Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780816540648
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
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