| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4 | The History Cooperative

The Spanish Redemption: Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande. By Charles Montgomery. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xvi + 338 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00; £35.00.)
In The Spanish Redemption, Charles Montgomery charts the creation of a common New Mexican Spanish heritage by both Hispanos and Anglos in the early twentieth century. The book is a welcome addition to the growing body of literature examining the role of race and ethnicity in the formation of regional identities within the Southwest. Montgomery's very readable prose does an admirable job of providing a nuanced understanding of the complex issues that inform ethnic self-ascription and the presentation of public history.	1
Principally, the book argues that fascination with Spanish heritage offered a common ground of historical symbols that helped ameliorate racial and political tensions between Mexicans and Americans. Throughout the book, Montgomery regularly makes fruitful use of comparisons between Southern California and New Mexico to draw out important differences and similarities in the appropriation and use of Spanish heritage in the Americanization of the Southwest.	. . .

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