Intimate Frontier

Ignacio MartÍnez is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. His scholarly interests include the Atlantic World, the social and intellectual history of colonial Mexico, the Spanish borderlands, and the history of emotions.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. An Ideal Friendship: Classical Interpretations and Everyday Reality2. Civilizing the Frontier: Soldiers, Missionaries, and Indios Amigos3. The Many Faces of Betrayal: Kino and the Coded World of Friendship4. Internal Enemies: False Friendship and the Collapse of Moral Order5. The Paradox of Friendship: Violence and the Ambiguities of Social InequalityConclusionNotesIndex

"MartÍnez’s work is a welcome addition to the expanding scholarship on the history of emotions and sentimentality that will cause historians to look beyond the context of British North America to consider how friendship developed and functioned across time and space within the Atlantic World." - Rachel Engl, New Mexico Historical Review “In this pathbreaking book, Ignacio MartÍnez explores the history of northern New Spain through the lens of friendship.” - Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, coeditor of Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico “An innovative scholarly contribution not only to the literature on borderlands and frontier societies but also to the growing literature on emotions and colonial domination in Mexico and Latin America.”- Javier Villa-Flores, author of Dangerous Speech: A Social History of Blasphemy in Colonial Mexico “Ignacio MartÍnez’s work is a must-read for scholars of the borderlands who should consider the range of ways that individuals created their communities and lived with others in civil society.” - Amy M. Porter, author of Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750–1846