Hispano Bastion: New Mexican Power in the Age of Manifest Destiny, 1837-1860 [Paperback]

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.Michael J. Alaridis a scholar of the Latino experience in the Southwest. He is an assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.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 ofPolítica: Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821-1910