| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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José María de Jesús Carvajal: The Life and Times of a Mexican Revolutionary. By Joseph E. Chance. (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2006. xii + 283 pp. Map, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.)

Centered upon the remarkable career of José María Carvajal, Joseph Chance traces the chaotic and, at times, extremely violent history of the borderland region between Texas and Mexico from the 1830s to the 1860s. This study is by no means a standard biography since the documentation available on Carvajal's long career was often quite spotty. While the author used many English language sources, particularly contemporary newspapers, the unfortunate absence of Mexican archival and published sources eliminated some dimensions. Born in San Antonio de Béxar in 1809, Carvajal went to school in Virginia, and he possessed the distinct advantage of fluency in English as well as in his native Spanish. In the early 1830s, he opposed the centralist regime of President Antonio López de Santa Anna. However, like many other Texans of Hispanic origin, he supported Mexico's federalist 1824 Constitution and opposed the idea of separation from his homeland.

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