Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850

“Andrés is an extremely skilled historian. He’s gone on to great success with other books as well, but this was his first. It was also one of the earliest books to challenge the idea of Manifest Destiny as a way of understanding what was happening in places like Texas. To put it as concisely as I can, what Andrés is arguing is that national identities were relatively weak and unformed in this early part of the 19^th century, and other identities that people had were oftentimes more important.” Read more...

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Andrew Isenberg, Historian