| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Book Review

Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734–1900. By Armando C. Alonzo. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. xii, 357 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-8263-1866-5. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8263-1897-5.)

Chicano historiography has included the issue of just when Chicano history begins. Some have suggested 1848 as the starting point, since this is when the United States incorporated Mexico's northern lands as the result of the United States–Mexico War (1846–1848). Others suggest going as far back as the pre-Columbian period in Mexico. Both approaches have merit. However, recent studies concerning the Spanish and Mexican periods of the Southwest, including Armando C. Alonzo's, clearly solidify the central importance of those periods as well as the immediate post–Mexican War era for an understanding of Chicano history. 1

Alonzo's study concerning the Tejanos of south Texas is important for a number of reasons. First, it reminds us that Chicano history is more than just the mass immigration from Mexico that commences at the point that Alonzo's story leaves off. The nineteenth-century experiences and those of even earlier periods lay down deeper roots for Chicano history. In fact, Alonzo shows how important the migration of settlers to the northern part of both New Spain and later Mexico was even by the early nineteenth century. . . .

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