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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking study, historian Michael Alarid examines New Mexico’s transition from Spanish to Mexican to US control during the nineteenth century and illuminates how emerging class differences played a crucial role in the regime change.
Trade ReviewA must read for anyone interested in nineteenth-century New Mexico! Michael J. Alarid presents an original, provocative rendering of Nuevomexicanos and Euroamericans as New Mexico transitioned from a province of Mexico to a federal territory of the United States during the mid-nineteenth century."--Phillip B. Gonzales, author of
Política: Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821-
1910Table of Contents
- Gold Stars: Preface to the Second Edition
- Cheerleader for Mediocrity: Preface to the First Edition
- Planet Writer
- First Things First (Not)
- Planet Writer
- The Writer from Vermont
- Who Needs Your Writing
- Survival of the Optimist
- You Know You're Not a Writer When . . .
- In Good Company
- What a Week!
- Anyhoo! (Learning from Rejection without Losing Heart)
- Good Naked
- If You Don't Know Where You Are Going . . .
- Don't Fix; Reconstitute
- Good Naked
- Can I Be Honest?
- The Reverse Curse
- The Great American Thing
- Getting the "Other" Right
- Every. Single. Day.
- Thief of Joy
- The Church of the Creative Process
- A Case for Inefficiency
- Seeing Blue
- Drama Queen
- Seeing Blue
- A Walk around the Block
- Heart to Heart
- Decluttering
- Last Typo Standing: An Open Letter to the One That Got Away
- Credit Where Credit Is Due
- Happy Endings
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
