Spanish Redemption
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1500s mexico
20th century spanish heritage
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anglo and hispanic culture
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capitalism
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complicated relationship
cultural analysis
cultural production
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franciscan missionary
history
immigrants
immigration
mexican american history
mexican americans
mexican history
new mexico
racial politics
regional identity
rio grande
santa fe railroad
southwest
spanish americans
spanish colonial campaign
spanish frontier
spanish settler
Product details
- ISBN 9780520229716
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Mar 2002
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Charles Montgomery's compelling narrative traces the history of the upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos sought to redefine the region's social character by glorifying its Spanish colonial past. This readable book demonstrates that northern New Mexico's twentieth-century Spanish heritage owes as much to the coming of the Santa Fe Railroad in 1880 as to the first Spanish colonial campaign of 1598. As the railroad brought capital and migrants into the region, Anglos posed an unprecedented challenge to Hispano wealth and political power. Yet unlike their counterparts in California and Texas, the Anglo newcomers could not wholly displace their Spanish-speaking rivals. Nor could they segregate themselves or the upper Rio Grande from the image, well-known throughout the Southwest, of the disreputable Mexican. Instead, prominent Anglos and Hispanos found common cause in transcending the region's Mexican character. Turning to colonial symbols of the conquistador, the Franciscan missionary, and the humble Spanish settler, they recast northern New Mexico and its people.
Charles Montgomery is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida.
