Hispano Bastion

New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860

By: Michael J. Alarid

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Hardcover | 1 December 2022

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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 patr nes 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 patr nes 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.

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A must read for anyone interested in nineteenth-century New Mexico! Michael J. Alarid presents an original, provocative rendering of Nuevomexicanos and Euroamericans as New Mexico transitioned from a province of Mexico to a federal territory of the United States during the mid-nineteenth century."--Phillip B. Gonzales, author of Politica: Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821-1910

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