Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850This book 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. Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and crucial identity decisions against the backdrop of two structural transformations taking place in the region during the first half of the 19th century and often pulling in opposite directions. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Carved Spaces Mexicos Far North the American Southwest or Indian Domains? | 15 |
A Nation Made Visible Patronage Power and Ritual | 56 |
The Spirit of Mercantile Enterprise | 93 |
The Benediction of the Roman Ritual | 124 |
The Texas Revolution and the NotSoSeeret History of Shifting Loyalties | 146 |
The Fate of Governor Albino Perez | 171 |
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Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850 Andrés Reséndez No preview available - 2004 |
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