Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850

Andrés Reséndez

Cambridge University Press, 2005 - History - 309 pages

This 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
• State Market and Literary Cultures: 197
• New Mexico at the Razors Edge: 237
• Conclusion: 264
• Bibliography: 273
• Index: 295

Popular passages

Page 276 - Report of the Secretary of War communicating in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a Report and Map of the Examination of New Mexico, made by Lieutenant JW Abert.‎

About the author

Andréz Reséndez is Assistant Professor at the Department of History at UC Davis. He is from Mexico City where he obtained his undergraduate degree in International Relations from El Colegio de México. He did his graduate work at the University of Chicago and later worked in Mexico to work as a professional consultant to historically-based television programs. Having obtained his Ph.D. in 1997, he returned to the US as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Yale University. He has traveled extensively throughout Mexico and the American Southwest. He has written articles about Mexico's northern frontier and the Mexican-American War for leading journals both in Mexico and in the United States. He is the editor and translator of A Texas Patriot on Trial in Mexico: José Antonio Navarro and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, forthcoming in the Texas Library Series. He is also a member of the American Historical Association (AHA), the Organization of American Historians (OAH), and the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850; Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850, Andrés Reséndez
• Author: Andrés Reséndez
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 0521543193, 9780521543194
• Length: 309 pages
• Subjects: History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); History / Modern / General; History / North America; History / United States / 19th Century; History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX); History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY); Political Science / International Relations / General; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism