Changing national identities at the frontier
Subtitle: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850
By: Andres Resendez.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Social aspects.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas.; Frontier and pioneer life -- New Mexico.; Nationalism -- Texas -- History -- 19th century.; Nationalism -- New Mexico -- History -- 19th century.; Texas -- History -- To 1846.; New Mexico -- History -- To 1848.; Texas -- Ethnic relations.; New Mexico -- Ethnic relations.
Description: 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. Andrés Reséndez 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.--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.