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Mexican American Colonization During the Nineteenth Century A History of the U. S. Mexico Borderlands

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ISBN-10: 1107666244

ISBN-13: 9781107666245

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jos� �ngel Hern�ndez

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This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth century Mexican American history that examines Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States in the aftermath of a war resulting in the loss of half its territory. Responding to past interpretations, Jose Angel Hernández suggests that these resettlement schemes centered on the developments of the frontier region, the modernization of the country with loyal Mexican American settlers, and blocking the tide of migrations to the United States to prevent the depopulation of its fractured northern border. Through an examination of Mexico's immigration and colonization policies as they developed throughout the…    
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List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Jos� Angel Hern�ndez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published articles in Aztl�n: A Journal of Chicano Studies and Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, as well as Landscapes of Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal Devoted to the Study of Violence, Conflict, and Trauma. He has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Trustee Fellowship, the Fulbright-Hayes Dissertation Fellowship and the Center for Mexican American Studies Fellowship from the University of Houston. At Massachusetts, Professor Hern�ndez has received a Lilly Teaching Fellowship and has also been a Center for Public Policy and Administration…    

Migration to Mexico in an Age of Global Immigrations
From conquest to colonization: the making of Mexican colonization policy after independence
Postwar expulsions and early repatriation policy
Postwar repatriation and settling the frontiers of New Mexico
Repatriations along the new international boundary: the cases of Texas and California
The 1871 riot of La Mesilla, New Mexico
Colonizing La Ascensi�n, Chihuahua: the prehistory of revolt
Anatomy of 1892 revolt of La Ascensi�n, or the public lynching of Rafael Ancheta
Conclusion
Repatriating modernity?