Changing National Identities at the Frontier

Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century
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Author: Andrés Reséndez ISBN: 9781107385948
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: September 13, 2004
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Andrés Reséndez
ISBN: 9781107385948
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: September 13, 2004
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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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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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