Changing National Identities at the Frontier

Changing National Identities at the Frontier
Author: Andrés Reséndez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521543194

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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 19th century and often pulling in opposite directions.