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New Perspectives on the Mexican and American Borderlands

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THE MEXICAN FRONTIER, 1821–1846: THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST UNDER MEXICO. By WEBERDAVID J. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982. Pp. 416. $19.95 hardcover, $9.95 paperback.)

MEXICANO RESISTANCE IN THE SOUTHWEST: “THE SACRED RIGHT OF SELF-PRESERVATION.” By ROSENBAUMROBERT J. (Austin and London: University of Texas Press, 1981. Pp. 241. $14.95.)

THE TEJANO COMMUNITY, 1836–1900. By DE LEÓNARNOLDO, with a contribution by STEWARTKENNETH L. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982. Pp. 277. $19.95.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Richard Griswold del Castillo*
Affiliation:
San Diego State University
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Notes

1. Herbert Eugene Bolton, The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921).

2. John Francis Bannon, The Spanish Borderlands Frontier, 1513–1821, (New York: Holt, Rinehardt, and Winston, 1960).

3. For an excellent discussion of the ambiguous place of borderlands history in Latin American historiography, see José Cuello, “Beyond the ‘Borderlands’ Is the North of Colonial Mexico: A Latin-Americanist Perspective to the Study of the Mexican North and the United States Southwest,” Proceedings of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies 9 (1982): 1–24.

4. Foreigners in Their Native Land: Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans, edited by David J. Weber (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1973); also, New Spain's Far Northern Frontier: Essays on Spain in the American West, 1540–1821 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979).

5. See, for example, David J. Weber, El México perdido: ensayos escogidos sobre el antiguo norte de Mexico, 1540–1821 (Mexico: Sepsetentas, 1976); David Maciel and Patricia Bueno, Aztlán: historía contemporánea del pueblo chicano (Mexico: Sepsetentas, 1976). Survey histories of the Chicano recently published in Mexico are Carey McWilliams, Al norte de Mexico, 4th ed. (Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno, 1979); and Rudolfo Acuña, América ocupada (Mexico: Era, 1981).

6. This bibliography can be supplemented with the one found in Juan Gómez-Quiñones, The Development of the Mexican Working Class North of the Rio Bravo: Work and Culture among Laborers and Artisans, 1600–1900, Popular Series no. 2 (Los Angeles: UCLA, Chicano Studies Research Center, 1982). The text of this work is a modified version of the Spanish text of the UNAM volume with an expanded bibliography.