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A Borderlands Town in Transition: Laredo, 1755-1870
Contributor(s): Hinojosa, Gilberto Miguel (Author)

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ISBN: 0890969779     ISBN-13: 9780890969779
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
OUR PRICE: $17.05  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 1983
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 19th Century
Dewey: 976.446
LCCN: 83045096
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.13" W x 9.04" L (0.65 lbs) 176 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Geographic Orientation - Texas
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Wave upon wave of newcomers has penetrated the semiarid plains of the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. Among the settlers and sojourners along the Rio Grande in the mid-eighteenth century were the founders of Laredo, who came seeking survival and permanence in that chaparral country.

Established in 1755 as an outpost of New Spain, Laredo, like other borderlands towns, has periodically been buffeted by powerful outside forces that upset the stable society and family unity characteristic of the early villa. Unlike some other border communities, though, it has maintained a prominent Mexican-American political and economic elite.

Applying quantitative techniques of demographic analysis and interweaving their results with more traditional narrative, Gilberto Miguel Hinojosa tells the story of a borderlands town and its people. He shows how larger events such as war, economic depression, and changes of sovereignty affected family structure, racial and ethnic divisions, social-class relations, age composition of the population, property ownership, literacy, and other aspects of the daily lives of the townspeople. His conclusions suggest that life in these communities was far from the static, uneventful existence it was once believed to be.

 
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