| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850. By Andrés Reséndez. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvi, 309 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-83555-0. Paper, $23.99, ISBN 0-521-54319-3.)
In this excellent book, Changing National Identities at the Frontier, Andrés Reséndez studies the national loyalties, allegiances, and self-images of a people caught in the change of sovereignty and economic evolution from a Spanish Mexican borderlands region to an American frontier, explaining in depth a transformation that has intrigued historians.	1
While settlers in New Spain and Mexico sifted through changing political ideas related to sovereignty and self-governance in the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States was in the process of economic and political expansion westward across North America. American merchants bringing manufactured goods, settlers looking for farmlands, and land speculators anticipating the continuation of the American westward movement would change the borderlands forever, because behind them came the American volunteers to fight the Texas revolution and the U.S. Army to take New Mexico. This Americanization process was inexorable since the United States economy, with its links to a world trade system, was far more dynamic and forceful than the various smaller regional economic networks or national strategies that took settlers to far northern and northeastern regions of New Spain and Mexico.	. . .

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