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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Note on Translations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Divergent Revolutionary Genealogies | |
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| The Traumatic Origins of the Modern World | |
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| A History of Latino Textuality | |
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| Disenchantment | |
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| Becoming Latino | |
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| A Spiral Historical Narrative | |
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| Imagining New Futures | |
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| Anxiously Desiring the Nation: The Skepticism of Scholasticism | |
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| The Beginning of the End | |
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| Provincial Education | |
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| The Scholastic Episteme | |
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| Skepticism in the Eastern Interior Provinces of New Spain | |
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| Imagining the Nation | |
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| "Oh! How Much I Could Say!" Imagining "What a Nation Could Do | |
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| Voyage to the United States | |
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| Seeing a New Country | |
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| Admiring the Well-Being of the Nation | |
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| Struggling to Articulate the Sublime | |
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| Pursuing Reform and Revolution | |
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| Seeking the Pueblo's Happiness: Reform and the Discourse of Political Economy | |
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| The Need to Reform the Monarchy | |
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| The Discourse of Political Economy as the Vehicle for Greater Happiness | |
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| The Shifting Ideologies of Mercantilism to Free-Trade Capitalism | |
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| The Commercial Interests of Philadelphia's Early Spanish Diplomats | |
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| Early U.S. Hispanic Publications, the Critique of Mercantilism, and the Common Good | |
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| Epistemic Shift | |
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| From Reform to Revolution: Print Culture and Expanding Social Imaginaries | |
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| Communication Networks | |
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| Initial Ruptures | |
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| The Demise of the Hispanic Monarchy and the Birth of the Modern World | |
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| Print Culture and the Eruption of the Public Sphere | |
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| Reconfiguring Time and Space | |
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| Revolutionizing the Catholic Past | |
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| Seduced by Papers: Revolution (as Reformation) in Spanish Texas | |
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| Modern Tempests | |
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| On the Spanish Texas-Louisiana Border | |
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| Revolution as End of the World | |
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| Revolution as Seduction | |
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| From Patriarchal Respect to Reciprocal Love | |
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| Alone with the Hurricane | |
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| "We the Pueblo of the Province of Texas": The Philosophy and Brute Reality of Independence | |
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| Reading Revolutionary Broadsheets Aloud | |
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| The Broadsheets Content | |
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| Francisco Su�rez and the Catholic Corpus Mysticum | |
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| Revolutionary Catholic Visions of the Modern Political World | |
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| Indigenous Literacies | |
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| Catholic Republican Government | |
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| War and Terror | |
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| The Entrance of Life into History | |
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| "To the Advocates of Enlightenment and Reason": From Subjects to Citizens | |
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| From Spanish Defeat to Mexican Independence | |
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| Writing and the Word of the Sovereign | |
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| Printing and the Making of Citizens in Postindependence Texas | |
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| Caring for the Social Body | |
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| "Adhering to the New Order of Things": Newspapers, Publishing, and the Making of a New Social Imaginary | |
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| Forced Peace | |
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| Interfacing with Writing and Print Culture | |
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| The Founding of Spanish-Language Newspapers | |
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| Producing a New Social Imaginary | |
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| Reconfigured Publics | |
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| A New Temporality | |
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| "The Natural Sympathies That Unite All of Our People": Political Journalism and the Struggle against Racism | |
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| Putting Pen to Political Work | |
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| Xenophobia and Anti-Mexican Violence | |
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| Representing Tejano Interests in the 1856 Election | |
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| Texas and the Gulf of Mexico Network | |
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| Reconfigured Imagined Communities | |
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| Racialization and Colonization | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Surrounding Oneself with the Beauty of Life | |
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| A History of Writing, a Search for Presence | |
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| Appendixes: Transcriptions and Translations | |
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| Jos� Antonio Guti�rrez de Lara, "Americanos" (Proclamation, 1811; translation) | |
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| Jos� �lvarez de Toledo, Jes�s, Mar�a, y Jos� (Philadelphia, 1811; translation) | |
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| Governing Junta of B�xar, "We the Pueblo of the Province of Texas" (San Antonio, Texas, April 6,1813; transcription and translation) | |
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| Anonymous, "Remembrance of the Things That Took Place in B�xar in 1813 under the Tyrant Arredondo" (transcription and translation) | |
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| Notes | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |