Hispano Bastion - by Michael J Alarid (Paperback)

About the Book

In this groundbreaking study, historian Michael J. Alarid examines New Mexico's transition from Spanish to Mexican to US control during the nineteenth century and illuminates how emerging class differences played a crucial role in the regime change.

Book Synopsis

In this groundbreaking study, historian Michael J. Alarid examines New Mexico's transition from Spanish to Mexican to US control during the nineteenth century and illuminates how emerging class differences played a crucial role in the regime change.

Review Quotes

A must read for anyone interested in nineteenth-century New Mexico! Michael J. Alarid presents an original, provocative rendering of Nuevomexicanos and Euroamericans as New Mexico transitioned from a province of Mexico to a federal territory of the United States during the mid-nineteenth century.--Phillip B. Gonzales, author of Política: Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821-1910

About the Author

Michael J. Alarid is a scholar of the Latino experience in the Southwest. He is an assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.