Hispano Bastion

New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8263-6432-6
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

In this groundbreaking study, historian Michael J. Alarid examines New Mexico's transition from Spanish to Mexican to US control during the nineteenth century and illuminates how emerging class differences played a crucial role in the regime change. After Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, trade between Mexico and the United States attracted wealthy Hispanos into a new market economy and increased trade along El Camino Real, turning it into a burgeoning exchange route. As landowning Hispanos benefited from the Santa Fe trade, traditional relationships between wealthy and poor nuevomexicanos--whom Alarid calls patrónes and vecinos--started to shift. Far from being displaced by US colonialism, wealthy nuevomexicanos often worked in concert with new American officials after US troops marched into New Mexico in 1846, and in the process, Alarid argues, the patrónes abandoned their customary obligations to vecinos, who were now evolving into a working class. Ultimately wealthy nuevomexicanos, the book argues, succeeded in preserving New Mexico as a Hispano bastion, but they did so at the expense of poor vecinos.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Gold Stars: Preface to the Second Edition
- Cheerleader for Mediocrity: Preface to the First Edition
- Planet Writer
- First Things First (Not)
- Planet Writer
- The Writer from Vermont
- Who Needs Your Writing
- Survival of the Optimist
- You Know You're Not a Writer When.
- In Good Company
- What a Week!
- Anyhoo! (Learning from Rejection without Losing Heart)
- Good Naked
- If You Don't Know Where You Are Going.
- Don't Fix; Reconstitute
- Good Naked
- Can I Be Honest?
- The Reverse Curse
- The Great American Thing
- Getting the "Other" Right
- Every. Single. Day.
- Thief of Joy
- The Church of the Creative Process
- A Case for Inefficiency
- Seeing Blue
- Drama Queen
- Seeing Blue
- A Walk around the Block
- Heart to Heart
- Decluttering
- Last Typo Standing: An Open Letter to the One That Got Away
- Credit Where Credit Is Due
- Happy Endings
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Michael J. Alarid is a scholar of the Latino experience in the Southwest. He is an assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.