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

Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850
ISBN-10
0521543193
ISBN-13
9780521543194
Category
History
Pages
309
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Andrés Reséndez

Description

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.

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