Conquista, control y convicción: el papel de los parlamentos indígenas en México, el Chaco y Norteamérica

Abstract

This article evaluates the role played by the frontier conflicts in the adoption of policies which led to the creation of a diplomatic or consensual ambit. The first frontier conflict to be dealt with is that of Northern Mexico, through which the hasty solutions that had to be adopted for its resolution are studied. However these policies had a deep repercussion in the metropolis and they were applied and modified in later frontier conflicts such as that of the Chaco region, midway between the Austrians' and the Borbons' policies. Finally, I analyze the case of the North American Spanish possessions, where pactism was applied by the Borbons' reform policies which faced the difficult task of preserving their territorial dominions as well as their commercial interests in a complex political context.