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Article: Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- May 1, 2006
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Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850. By Andres Resendez. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 309. Paper, $23.99, ISBN 0-521-54319-3; cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-83555-0.)
Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850 takes its place among the best works of the new borderlands history. Informed but not burdened by cultural and economic theory, it recasts the history of both sides of the U.S./Mexico/Texas border in the light of transnational developments, including the growth of liberal and scientific thought, the rising influence of Masonic orders, the ...