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

Informationen zum Autor José Angel Hernández is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published articles in Aztlán: 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 Hernández has received a Lilly Teaching Fellowship and has also been a Center for Public Policy and Administration Workshop Fellow. He was Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latina/o Studies Faculty Fellow for the academic year 2011. Klappentext This study examines various cases of return migration from the United States to Mexico throughout the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Mexican American history, examining the various cases of return migration from the United States to Mexico following the war of 1846–8. As the United States expanded toward Mexico's northern frontiers, Mexicans in those areas now lost to the United States were seen as an ideal group to colonise and settle the fractured republic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Migration to Mexico in an Age of Global Immigrations: 1. From conquest to colonization: the making of Mexican colonization policy after independence; 2. Postwar expulsions and early repatriation policy; Part II: 3. Postwar repatriation and settling the frontiers of New Mexico; 4. Repatriations along the new international boundary: the cases of Texas and California; Part III: 5. The 1871 riot of La Mesilla, New Mexico; 6. Colonizing La Ascensión, Chihuahua: the prehistory of revolt; 7. Anatomy of 1892 revolt of La Ascensión, or the public lynching of Rafael Ancheta; Conclusion: 8. Repatriating modernity?...

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• Authors: Jos¿ngel Hern¿ez, Josae Angel Hernaandez, Jose Angel Hernandez, Jose Angel (Assistant Professor Hernandez, José Angel Hernández, Jos Angel Hernndez
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107012394
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01239-4
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Mexico, History, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, Population & demography, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples