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. Andres Resendez 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/18/2004
ISBN: 9780521543194
Pages: 309
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Choice 06/01/2005 pg. 1885