Changing National Identities at the Frontier

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Changing National Identities at the Frontier is written by Andrés Reséndez and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107394031 (ISBN 10) and 9781107394032 (ISBN 13).

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.