CHANGING NATIONAL IDENTITIES AT THE FRONTIER by Andres Resendez ( 9780521543194 )

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Title:

CHANGING NATIONAL IDENTITIES AT THE FRONTIER
TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO, 1800-1850

By:

Andres Resendez

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0521543193

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9780521543194

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

13 September, 2004

Pages:

326

Description:

This book explores the shaping of national identities in Texas and New Mexico in 1846-8.

Synopsis:

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 nineteenth century and often pulling in opposite directions. On the one hand, the Mexican government sought to bring its frontier inhabitants into the national fold by relying on administrative and patronage linkages; but on the other, Mexico's northern frontier gravitated toward the expanding American economy.

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Cambridge University Press

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