Mexico and Mexicans in the making of the United States
By: edited by John Tutino
Series: History, culture, and society series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780292737181; 9780292737198
Subjects: Mexicans; Mexican Americans; Foreign relations; History
Description: The book presents how Mexicans and Mexico were in the center of American history in social, economic and cultural legacies grounded in New Spain. In addition, information is given how Mexican Americans have constructively participated in North American ways of production, politics, social relations, and cultural understandings.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Mexico and Mexicans making U.S. history / John Tutino; title: Capitalist foundations: Spanish North America, Mexico, and the United States / John Tutino; title: Between Mexico and the United States: from indios to vaqueros in the pastoral borderlands / Andrew C. Isenberg; title: Imagining Mexico in love and war: nineteenth-century U.S. literature and visual culture / Shelley Streeby; title: Mexican merchants and teamsters on the Texas cotton road, 1862/1865 / David Montejano; title: Making Americans and Mexicans in the Arizona borderlands / Katherine Benton-Cohen; title: Keeping community, challenging boundaries: indigenous migrants, internationalist workers, and Mexican revolutionaries, 1900/1920 / Devra Weber; title: Transnational triangulation: Mexico, the United States, and the emergence of a Mexican American middle class / Jose E. Limon; title: New Mexico, mestizaje, and the transnations of North America / Ramon A. Gutierrez.