| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821–1861. By Raúl A. Ramos. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xvi, 297 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3207-3.)

Many Texas and U.S. histories still celebrate the battle of the Alamo as a crucial event in the development of both places. The fall of the Alamo symbolized the depths of Texan love of freedom and democracy. Accounts originally focused on the military and political aspects of the battle and the revolution that swirled around it. More recently, other works teased out its social and cultural meanings. In this volume, Raúl A. Ramos studies San Antonio from 1821 through 1861 to take the story of these decades "beyond the Alamo." Ramos wants to prove that the Texas Revolution, the battle of the Alamo, and the Mexican War and its aftermath were significant for the ways they expressed a hardy sense of Mexican identity that was steeped in Spanish history, the colonial experience, and discrete regional conditions and that generated a strong sense of independence.

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