Changing National Identities at the Frontier - Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850 - Andres Resendez - Hardback Bog - Cambridge University Press - 2004 -
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
This is a book about the shaping of national identities in Texas and New Mexico in the crucial years leading up to the Mexican-American War of 1846–8. It explores how frontier Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans came to think of themselves as members of particular national communities.