INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 5
3. CONTENTS 7
4. INTRODUCTION 9
5. I Bexar: Profile of a Tejano Community, 1820-1832 25
6. II Forgotten Founders: The Military Settlers of Eighteenth-Century San Antonio de Bexar 51
7. III The Canary Islands Immigrants of San Antonio: From Ethnic Exclusivity to Community in Eighteenth-Century Bexar 65
8. IV The Religious-Indian Communities: The Goals of the Friars 85
9. V Immigrants and Integration in Late Eighteenth-Century Bexar 109
10. VI Indians and Their Culture in San Fernando de Bexar 129
11. VII Independent Indians and the San Antonio Community 147
12. CONCLUSION 161
13. NOTES 167
14. SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY on Spanish Texas, 1685-1821 193
15. INDEX 215