William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies Search this
Physical description:
1 online resource
Type:
Electronic resources
Electronic books
History
Place:
Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.)
Mexican-American Border Region
Mexico
Texas
North America
Rio Grande Valley
Date:
2020
19th century
Notes:
ELEC copy Purchased from the NMAI Library Endowment
Elecresource
Contents:
Attraction and rejection : the beginning of a pattern, 1830-1836 -- Conflict and cooperation, 1837-1848 -- The permeable border, 1849-1860 -- Commercial and religious expansion, 1849-1860 -- The U.S. Civil War and its impact on the Rio Grande, 1861-1867 -- Cooperation in times of war, 1861-1867 -- A most violent decade, 1868-1880 -- Between hate and harmony, 1868-1880 -- Pacification and economic integration, 1868-1880 -- Afterword
Summary:
Less noted is the region's other everyday reality, one based on coexistence and cooperation among Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and the Native Americans, African Americans, and Europeans who also inhabited the borderlands. War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830-1880 is a history of these parallel worlds focusing on a border that gave rise not only to violent conflict but also cooperation and economic and social advancement
