Department News - 2005

History Department Chairman Jesús F. de la Teja is principal co-editor on Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain's North American Frontiers, published by the University of New Mexico Press. He and co-editor Ross Frank, associate professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, have worked on this project for over five years. It is a product of meetings at UC-San Diego and Southern Methodist University, where the Clements Center for Southwest Studies provided funding and support for the project. An effort to strenghten links between students of the eastern and western Spanish regions of North America, or borderlands, in the traditional terminology, the essays cover the entire chronological scope of Spain's imperial experience from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth century. The book also brings together established scholars with emerging leaders in the field and includes the area of northern Mexico within its scope of the region. Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion is intended for both classroom and scholarly use.

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