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Author : Paul Schuster Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An American-Mexican Frontier written by Paul Schuster Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David J. Weber
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826306036
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846 written by David J. Weber and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective.
Author : Paul S. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807897942
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (979 download)
Download or read book An American-Mexican Frontier written by Paul S. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commemorates the 60th anniversary of the National Gallery of Art's acquisition of the Index of American Design. A New Deal project, the Index includes 18,000 meticulous watercolor portraits of American folk, popular, and decorative art created prior to 1900. The book features 82 watercolors with photographs of artifacts portrayed (from quilts to carousel animals). Three essays explore the history and role the Index and examine folk-art collecting during the early 1900s.
Author : Douglas Monroy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520913813
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Thrown Among Strangers written by Douglas Monroy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-11-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every California schoolchild's first interaction with history begins with the missions and Indians. It is the pastoralist image, of course, and it is a lasting one. Children in elementary school hear how Father Serra and the priests brought civilization to the groveling, lizard- and acorn-eating Indians of such communities as Yang-na, now Los Angeles. So edified by history, many of those children drag their parents to as many missions as they can. Then there is the other side of the missions, one that a mural decorating a savings and loan office in the San Fernando Valley first showed to me as a child. On it a kindly priest holds a large cross over a kneeling Indian. For some reason, though, the padre apparently aims not to bless the Indian but rather to bludgeon him with the emblem of Christianity. This portrait, too, clings to the memory, capturing the critical view of the missionization of California's indigenous inhabitants. I carried the two childhood images with me both when I went to libraries as I researched the missions and when I revisited several missions thirty years after those family trips. In this work I proceed neither to dubunk nor to reconcile these contrary notions of the missions and Indians but to present a new and, I hope, deeper understanding of the complex interaction of the two antithetical cultures.
Author : David J. Weber
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300156219
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Spanish Frontier in North America written by David J. Weber and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1993 Western Heritage Award given by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, here is a definitive history of the Spanish colonial period in North America. Authoritative and colorful, the volume focuses on both the Spaniards' impact on Native Americans and the effect of North Americans on Spanish settlers. "Splendid".--New York Times Book Review.
Author : José Angel Hernández
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107378753
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century written by José Angel Hernández and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Mexican American history, examining Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States, following a war that resulted in the loss of half Mexico's territory. Responding to past interpretations, Jose Angel Hernández suggests that these resettlement schemes centred on developments within the frontier region, the modernisation of the country with loyal Mexican American settlers, and blocking the tide of migrations to the United States to prevent the depopulation of its fractured northern border. Through an examination of Mexico's immigration and colonisation policies as they developed in the nineteenth century, this book focuses primarily on the population of Mexican citizens who were 'lost' after the end of the Mexican American War of 1846–8 until the end of the century.
Author : Peter Laufer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839985768
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Up Against the Wall written by Peter Laufer and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexican border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. Up Against the Wall provides the background to understanding how the border has become a fraud, resulting in nothing more than the criminalization of Mexican and other migrants. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north.
Author : Yolanda G. Romero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (213 download)
Download or read book The Mexican American Frontier Experience in Twentieth Century Northwest Texas written by Yolanda G. Romero and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Tutino
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292742932
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States written by John Tutino and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration and the drug war. Placing Mexicans and Mexico in the center of American history, this volume elucidates how economic, social, and cultural legacies grounded in colonial New Spain shaped both Mexico and the United States, as well as how Mexican Americans have constructively participated in North American ways of production, politics, social relations, and cultural understandings. Combining historical, sociological, and cultural perspectives, the contributors to this volume explore the following topics: the Hispanic foundations of North American capitalism; indigenous peoples’ actions and adaptations to living between Mexico and the United States; U.S. literary constructions of a Mexican “other” during the U.S.-Mexican War and the Civil War; the Mexican cotton trade, which helped sustain the Confederacy during the Civil War; the transformation of the Arizona borderlands from a multiethnic Mexican frontier into an industrializing place of “whites” and “Mexicans”; the early-twentieth-century roles of indigenous Mexicans in organizing to demand rights for all workers; the rise of Mexican Americans to claim middle-class lives during and after World War II; and the persistence of a Mexican tradition of racial/ethnic mixing—mestizaje—as an alternative to the racial polarities so long at the center of American life.
Author : Virginia Belmont Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Americans and the Mexican Frontier written by Virginia Belmont Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel St. John
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400838630
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Line in the Sand written by Rachel St. John and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first transnational history of the U.S.-Mexico border Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on the desert border to the west of the Rio Grande, this book explains the origins of the modern border and places the line at the center of a transnational history of expanding capitalism and state power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving across local, regional, and national scales, St. John shows how government officials, Native American raiders, ranchers, railroad builders, miners, investors, immigrants, and smugglers contributed to the rise of state power on the border and developed strategies to navigate the increasingly regulated landscape. Over the border's history, the U.S. and Mexican states gradually developed an expanding array of official laws, ad hoc arrangements, government agents, and physical barriers that did not close the line, but made it a flexible barrier that restricted the movement of some people, goods, and animals without impeding others. By the 1930s, their efforts had created the foundations of the modern border control apparatus. Drawing on extensive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, Line in the Sand weaves together a transnational history of how an undistinguished strip of land became the significant and symbolic space of state power and national definition that we know today.
Author : R. Conrad Stein
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781599351605
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Mexican-American War written by R. Conrad Stein and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years ago American schools taught children that their country began when the Pilgrims established a settlement at Plymouth Rock in 1620. The Pilgrims, teachers said, were the first people other than Indians to build a permanent colony on what became United States soil. That information was incorrect. Men and women from what is now Mexico built towns and villages in the present-day American state of New Mexico before the Pilgrims arrived. The city of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was founded by Mexicans in 1608, twelve years earlier than Plymouth Rock. In the early 1800s, all of the American southwest, from Texas to California, belonged to Mexico. This vast region above the Rio Grande was undeveloped and underpopulated. Mexicans called the area the Northern Frontier. The United States, the Northern Frontier's nearest neighbor, was an ever-expanding country driven by a spirit called Manifest Destiny. According to the principals of Manifest Destiny the United States borders were fated to sweep west and reach the Pacific Ocean. But blocking the westward expansion was Mexico's Northern Frontier. In 1846 the United States and Mexico went to war over the issue of land. The Mexican-American War was fought from 1846 to 1848. Today the war is somewhat over-looked in American history books because the great Civil War broke out a dozen years later and dominated subsequent events. However, the war is studied in Mexican classrooms where it is generally called the American Invasion of Mexico. Because of the war, Mexico lost its entire Northern Frontier to the United States. For the Americans, Manifest Destiny was complete as their nation now spread from sea to shining sea. The Mexicans suffered a humiliating defeat and saw about half their land swallowed up by their aggressive northern neighbors. To a certain extent bitterness over the Mexican-American War lingers in Mexico even today. Book jacket.
Author : Rafael Acosta Morales
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268200777
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes written by Rafael Acosta Morales and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines how historical archetypes in violent narratives on the Mexican American frontier have resulted in political discourse that feeds back into real violence. The drug battles, outlaw culture, and violence that permeate the U.S.-Mexican frontier serve as scenery and motivation for a wide swath of North American culture. In this innovative study, Rafael Acosta Morales ties the pride that many communities felt for heroic tales of banditry and rebels to the darker repercussions of the violence inflicted by the representatives of the law or the state. Narratives on bandits, cowboys, and desperadoes promise redistribution, regeneration, and community, but they often bring about the very opposite of those goals. This paradox is at the heart of Acosta Morales’s book. Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines the relationship between affect, narrative, and violence surrounding three historical archetypes—social bandits (often associated with the drug trade), cowboys, and desperadoes—and how these narratives create affective loops that recreate violent structures in the Mexican American frontier. Acosta Morales analyzes narrative in literary, cinematic, and musical form, examining works by Américo Paredes, Luis G. Inclán, Clint Eastwood, Rolando Hinojosa, Yuri Herrera, and Cormac McCarthy. The book focuses on how narratives of Mexican social banditry become incorporated into the social order that bandits rose against and how representations of violence in the U.S. weaponize narratives of trauma in order to justify and expand the violence that cowboys commit. Finally, it explains the usage of universality under the law as a means of criminalizing minorities by reading the stories of Mexican American men who were turned into desperadoes by the criminal law system. Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes demonstrates how these stories led to recreated violence and criminalization of minorities, a conversation especially important during this time of recognizing social inequality and social injustices. The book is part of a growing body of scholarship that applies theoretical approaches to borderlands studies, and it will be of interest to students and scholars in American and Mexican history and literature, border studies, literary criticism, cultural criticism, and related fields.
Author : Neil Foley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674048482
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Mexicans in the Making of America written by Neil Foley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year According to census projections, by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the overwhelming majority of these will be of Mexican descent. This dramatic demographic shift is reshaping politics, culture, and fundamental ideas about American identity. Neil Foley, a leading Mexican American historian, offers a sweeping view of the evolution of Mexican America, from a colonial outpost on Mexico’s northern frontier to a twenty-first-century people integral to the nation they have helped build. “Compelling...Readers of all political persuasions will find Foley’s intensively researched, well-documented scholarly work an instructive, thoroughly accessible guide to the ramifications of immigration policy.” —Publishers Weekly “For Americans long accustomed to understanding the country’s development as an east-to-west phenomenon, Foley’s singular service is to urge us to tilt the map south-to-north and to comprehend conditions as they have been for some time and will likely be for the foreseeable future...A timely look at and appreciation of a fast-growing demographic destined to play an increasingly important role in our history.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : Andrés Reséndez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521543194
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Changing National Identities at the Frontier written by Andrés Reséndez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Pablo Vila
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292757786
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders written by Pablo Vila and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the U.S.-Mexico frontier, where border crossings are a daily occurrence for many people, reinforcing borders is also a common activity. Not only does the U.S. Border Patrol strive to "hold the line" against illegal immigrants, but many residents on both sides of the border seek to define and bound themselves apart from groups they perceive as "others." This pathfinding ethnography charts the social categories, metaphors, and narratives that inhabitants of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez use to define their group identity and distinguish themselves from "others." Pablo Vila draws on over 200 group interviews with more than 900 area residents to describe how Mexican nationals, Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Anglos make sense of themselves and perceive their differences from others. This research uncovers the regionalism by which many northern Mexicans construct their sense of identity, the nationalism that often divides Mexican Americans from Mexican nationals, and the role of ethnicity in setting boundaries among Anglos, Mexicans, and African Americans. Vila also looks at how gender, age, religion, and class intertwine with these factors. He concludes with fascinating excerpts from re-interviews with several informants, who modified their views of other groups when confronted by the author with the narrative character of their identities.
Author : Arnoldo De León
Publisher : Harlan Davidson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mexican Americans in Texas written by Arnoldo De León and published by Harlan Davidson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of Mexican Americans in Texas.
