Introduction: Mexico and Mexicans Making U.S. History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Mexico and Mexicans Making U.S. History 1
5. 1 Capitalist Foundations: Spanish North America, Mexico, and the United States 36
6. 2 Between Mexico and the United States: From Indios to Vaqueros in the Pastoral Borderlands 83
7. 3 Imagining Mexico in Love and War: Nineteenth- Century U.S. Literature and Visual Culture 110
8. 4 Mexican Merchants and Teamsters on the Texas Cotton Road, 1862–1865 141
9. 5 Making Americans and Mexicans in the Arizona Borderlands 171
10. 6 Keeping Community, Challenging Boundaries: Indigenous Migrants, Internationalist Workers, and Mexican Revolutionaries, 1900–1920 208
11. 7 Transnational Triangulation: Mexico, the United States, and the Emergence of a Mexican American Middle Class 236
12. 8 New Mexico, Mestizaje, and the Transnations of North America 257
13. Bibliography 285
14. Contributors 313
15. Index 315