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Title

Foreigners in their native land : historical roots of the Mexican Americans / edited by David J. Weber ; new foreword by Arnoldo De León ; new afterword by David J. Weber.

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

Weber, David J.

Description

xx, 292 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Most recent studies about Mexican Americans deal only with the twentieth century. This book provides the much-needed historical perspective that is essential for a full understanding of the present. Dozens of selections from firsthand accounts, introduced by the editor's knowledgeable essays, capture the flavor and mood of the Mexican American experience in the Southwest from the early seventeenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century."--Jacket.

Subject

Mexican Americans > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-285) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition / Arnoldo De Leon -- Foreword to the First Edition / Ramon Eduardo Ruiz -- New Spain's Far Northern Frontier -- Church and State -- Luis de Velasco, 1595 -- Frontier Military -- Antonio Martinez, 1817 -- "Contributions are small" -- Francisco Martinez de Baeza, 1639 -- A Communal Land Grant -- Lorenzo Marquis -- Antonio Jose Ortiz, 1794 -- Mestizaje -- First Los Angeles Census, 1781 -- "Most hardy subjects" -- Zebulon M. Pike, 1807; Miguel Ramos de Arizpe, 18182 -- "There were no paupers" -- Jose Agustin de Escudero, 1827 -- "Backward" New Mexico -- Pedro Bautista Pino, 1812 -- The "wretched village" of San Antonio -- Juan Agustin Morfi, 1778 -- The Romantic Frontier -- Guadalupe Vallejo, 1890; George Wharton James, 1914 -- Yankee Infiltration and the Hardening of Stereotypes -- "Calculating the profit" -- Carlos Dehault Delassus, 1804 -- "Indications are very dangerous" -- Joaquin del Real Alencaster, 1807 -- California "would fall without an effort" -- William Shaler, 1808 -- The Black Legend -- William Robertson, 1777 -- "Degenerate inhabitants of New Mexico" -- Rufus B. Sage, 1846 -- "Blood ... as ditch water" -- Walter Prescott Webb, 1931 & 1935 -- "An ill opinion of the Mexicans" -- Jose Maria Sanchez, 1828 -- "Lazy people of vicious character" -- Jose Maria Sanchez, 1828 -- "Industrious, honest North American settlers" -- Ayuntamiento of San Antonio, 1832 -- "Waiting the result" -- Thomas O. Larkin, 1846 -- Cultures Collide -- "I am warning you" -- Manuel Mier y Teran, 1828 & 1829.

ISBN

0826335101 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003020529

OCLC

53090923

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Harvard Library