Mexican American colonization during the nineteenth century : a history of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands / José Angel Hernández.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernández, José Angel, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexicans--Mexican-American Border Region--History--19th century.

Mexicans.

Return migration--Mexico--History--19th century.

Return migration.

Mexican-American Border Region--History--19th century.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexico, North--History--19th century.

Mexico, North.

Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--19th century.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 266 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

From conquest to colonization : the making of Mexican colonization policy after independence

Postwar expulsions and early repatriation policy

Postwar repatriation and settling the frontiers of New Mexico

Repatriations along the new international boundary : the cases of Texas and California

The 1871 riot of La Mesilla, New Mexico

Colonizing la Ascensión, Chihuahua : the pre-history of revolt

Anatomy of 1892 revolt of la Ascensión, or, The public lynching of Rafael Ancheta

Conclusion : repatriating modernity?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-41143-8

1-107-22914-6

1-280-68513-1

9786613662071

1-139-42279-0

1-139-41977-3

0-511-99817-1

1-139-42182-4

1-139-41772-X

1-139-42386-X

OCLC:

794663497