Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521543194)

Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and crucial identity decisions in this southwestern region during the first half of the nineteenth century. Whereas the Mexican government sought to bring its frontier inhabitants into the national fold by relying on administrative and patronage linkages, Mexico's northern frontier gravitated toward the expanding American economy. Andr駸 Res駭dez explores how the diverse and fiercely independent peoples of Texas and New Mexico came to think of themselves as members of one particular national community or another, in the years leading up to the Mexican-American War.

Author: Andr駸 Res駭dez
ISBN-10: 0521543193
ISBN-13: 9780521543194
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2004
Pages: 309
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2005 pg. 1885