Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States / / ed. by John Tutino.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Benton-Cohen, Katherine,; Gutiérrez, Ramón A.,; Isenberg, Andrew C.,; Limón, José E.,; Montejano, David,; Streeby, Shelley,; Tutino, John,; Weber, Devra,
• HerausgeberIn: Tutino, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: CMAS History, Culture, and Society Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.)

Mexico and Mexicans have been involved in every aspect of making the United States from colonial times until the present. Yet our shared history is a largely untold story, eclipsed by headlines about illegal immigration and the drug war. Placing Mexicans and Mexico in the center of American history,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: Mexico and Mexicans Making U.S. History
• 1 Capitalist Foundations: Spanish North America, Mexico, and the United States
• 2 Between Mexico and the United States: From Indios to Vaqueros in the Pastoral Borderlands
• 3 Imagining Mexico in Love and War: Nineteenth- Century U.S. Literature and Visual Culture
• 4 Mexican Merchants and Teamsters on the Texas Cotton Road, 1862–1865
• 5 Making Americans and Mexicans in the Arizona Borderlands
• 6 Keeping Community, Challenging Boundaries: Indigenous Migrants, Internationalist Workers, and Mexican Revolutionaries, 1900–1920
• 7 Transnational Triangulation: Mexico, the United States, and the Emergence of a Mexican American Middle Class
• 8 New Mexico, Mestizaje, and the Transnations of North America
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index