Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez

River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: DUKE UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780822351719
• ISBN-10: 0822351714
• Artikelnr.: 35687176

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Constructing Vecinos, Constructing Indios: Complex Interdependence 17
2. Fragmented Communities: Class and Gender Hierarchies 51
3. Opposing Forces: Political Loyalty and Trade 92
4. Bandidos or Citizens? Everyday Forms of Resistance to Political and Legal Changes 129
5. Divorcées, Rancheros, and Peons: Changing Class and Gender Relations 176
6. Contested Citizenship: The Enduring Roles of Race and Class 222
Conclusion 275
Notes 287
Bibliography 333
Index 355