Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race

by Laura E. Gómez

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In both the historic record and the popular imagination, the story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in America has been characterized by notions of annexation rather than colonialism, of opening rather than conquering, and of settling unpopulated lands rather than displacing existing populations.

Using the territory that is now New Mexico as a case study, Manifest Destinies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814732054
• ISBN13: 9780814732052
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"