Ross Frank, Dept. of Ethnic Studies

Publications

Monograph:

The Tribal Digital Village:  Sovereignty, Technology, and Collaboration in Indian Southern California.   (in preparation)



From Settler to Citizen: New Mexican Economic Development and the Creation of Vecino Society, 1750-1820. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Edited Book:

Jesús F. de la Teja and Ross Frank, co-editors.  Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers: Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion.  University of New Mexico Press and Clements Center for Southwest Studies, SMU, 2005.

Book Chapters:

“'They conceal a malice most refined': Controlling Social and Ethnic Mobility in Late Colonial New Mexico”, in Social Control on Spain’s North American Frontiers: Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion. Jesús F. de la Teja and Ross Frank, ed.  University of New Mexico Press and Clements Center for Southwest Studies, SMU, 2005.

"Demographic, Social, and Economic Change: New Mexico." In New Views of the Spanish Borderlands. Ed. Robert H. Jackson. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998, 31-71.

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Articles:

"Making New Mexican Santos: Franciscans and Vecino Dominance in Late Colonial New Mexico." New Mexico Historical Review, 2000; 75:3.

"The Life of Christ and the New Mexican Santo Tradition," Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture, 7 (1996), 33-80.

"Economic Growth and the Creation of the Vecino Homeland in New Mexico, 1780-1820," Revista de Indias (Madrid) 1996; 56:208, 743-782.

Entries for the Encyclopedia of Latin American History. Ed. Barbara Tenenbaum. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1995).

"Currency and Finance: The Spanish Borderlands." In Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. Ed. Jacob E. Cooke. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993. (vol. I: 564-575).

"The Creation of a Vecino Culture in Late Colonial New Mexico, 1780-1820." Five Centuries of Mexican History/Cinco Siglos de historia de México: Papers of the VIII Conference of Mexican and North American Historians. México: Instituto Mora, 1992. (vol. II: 253-273).

"Changing Pueblo Indian Pottery Tradition: The Underside of Economic Development in Late Colonial New Mexico, 1750 1820." Journal of the Southwest, 33:3 (Autumn, 1991), 282-321.

"An Interpretation of the Land of Cockaigne (1567) by Pieter
Breugel the Elder." The Sixteenth Century Journal, 22:2
(Summer 1991), 299-329.

"The Cortés Letters: Inscribing the Conquest of Mexico." dispositio, 14:36-38 (1989 [1991]), 187-212.

Reviews:

Review of: Coronado's Land by Marc Simmons (Albuquerque, 1991). Western Historical Quarterly, Winter 1994, 25:4, 550-551.

Review of: The Spanish Frontier in North America by David J. Weber (New Haven, 1993). Journal of San Diego History. Fall 1994, 280-282.

Review of: The Protector de Indios in Colonial New Mexico by Charles R. Cutter (Albuquerque, 1986). The American Indian Quarterly, (1989) 18:3, 290-292.