{"product_id":"river-of-hope-9780822351719","title":"River of Hope","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRiver of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRiver of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e not only documents the history of the Rio Grande area in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but also provides a model for integrating the concerns of Chicana\/o studies scholars, historians of the U.S. West, scholars of gender and ethnicity, theorists of state formation, and political scientists who study 'everyday forms of resistance.' An extraordinary contribution, the book opens up a wide-ranging discussion about the interplay between local and national discourses, particularly in places located on the peripheries of power and at times of rapid social, cultural, legal, and political change. This is genuinely original scholarship.\"—\u003cb\u003eSusan Lee Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eRoaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRiver of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e tells the complex story of how Spanish colonists settled Texas-Tamaulipas, how they became neglected Mexican citizens, and ultimately, how they were transformed into unwanted American citizens as subjects of the United States. In this rich and nuanced work, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez illuminates the struggles over land, identity, and love as native nations, Spain, Mexico, and the United States competed for this terrain.\"—\u003cb\u003eRamón A. Gutiérrez\u003c\/b\u003e, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A sweeping, path-breaking achievement, \u003ci\u003eRiver of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e will stand as a benchmark study of the borderlands for decades to come. It is a compelling political and social history of identity formations, community building, and overlapping conquests from the earliest Spanish colonial settlements to nineteenth-century Euro-American towns. Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez interrogates how the people who called \u003ci\u003elas villas del norte\u003c\/i\u003e home created meaning in their lives against a backdrop of state formation, disenfranchisement, and violence.\"—\u003cb\u003eVicki L. Ruiz\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A first-rate analysis of the dynamic and varied ways that the inhabitants of the Rio Grande borderlands formulated their identities in relation to rapid and volatile geopolitical change.” -- Eric V. Meeks * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Deeply researched and elegantly written, this book is a required purchase for any border studies collection. Summing Up: Essential.” -- J. A. Stuntz * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“Scholars and students of western, borderlands, Native American, Chicana-Chicano, and gender history are the books[‘s] primary audience, but the explorations of identity, state power, individual agency, and gender will benefit scholars from a wide range of fields. … [It] provide[s] valuable insights into the uneven process of incorporation and the ways in which people negotiate their place between and in different empires and nation-states.”  -- Alicia M. Dewey * History: Reviews of New Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A]n excellent historical backdrop to Mexican American civil rights history and contemporary discussions of Latina\/o citizenship. Valerio-Jimenez's superb study will animate courses and appeal to readers interested in southern, borderlands, and Chicana\/o history.\" -- Mark Allan Goldberg * Journal of Southern History *\u003cbr\u003e“Overall, this book is a good example of borderland studies that examine state formation and the construction of identity. The author uses a wide array of sources and places the history of the settlers in the region in the context of changing political authorities…. [I]t is a solid contribution to Chicano studies and borderlands history.” -- Armando Alonzo * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e“In sum, \u003ci\u003eRiver of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e provides us with an empirically rich and wonderfully argued examination of an understudied area of the Mexico-U.S. border region.” -- Andrae Marak * Western Historical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Wonderfully researched and engagingly written, \u003ci\u003eRiver of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e deserves to be read alongside other classic regional case studies of nineteenth-century American political life.\" -- John Mckiernan-González * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"This monograph delivers a pathbreaking analysis that leaves enough unexplored questions for future generations of scholars to elevate this borderland to one that should prove every bit as rich as the Mississippi River Delta, the Great Lakes, or the middle Rio Grande Valley.\" -- Morgan LaBin Veraluz * Journal of American Ethnic History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Maps, Figures, and Tables ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Constructing \u003ci\u003eVecinos\u003c\/i\u003e, Constructing \u003ci\u003eIndios\u003c\/i\u003e: Complex Interdependence 17\u003cbr\u003e 2. Fragmented Communities: Class and Gender Hierarchies 51\u003cbr\u003e 3. Opposing Forces: Political Loyalty and Trade 92\u003cbr\u003e 4. \u003ci\u003eBandidos\u003c\/i\u003e or Citizens? Everyday Forms of Resistance to Political and Legal Changes 129\u003cbr\u003e 5. Divorcées, Rancheros, and Peons: Changing Class and Gender Relations 176\u003cbr\u003e 6. Contested Citizenship: The Enduring Roles of Race and Class 222\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 275\u003cbr\u003e Notes 287\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 333\u003cbr\u003e Index 355","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456015991127,"sku":"9780822351719","price":132.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822351719.jpg?v=1755033454","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/river-of-hope-9780822351719","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}