The Spanish RedemptionHeritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande

Heritage, power, and loss on New Mexico's upper Rio Grande

Bibliographic Data

ID20022647
AuthorsCharles Montgomery (0000-0002-6908-5992), Charles A Montgomery (corresponding author), Charles H Montgomery
Year2002
Pages338
Publication date2002-03-20
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Spanish redemption (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520229716.001.0001
OpenAlexW4229577907
Open LibraryOL3939164M
ISBN9780520229716
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This compelling narrative traces the history of the upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and Hispanos sought to redefine the region's social character by glorifying its Spanish colonial past. This book demonstrates that northern New Mexico's twentieth-century Spanish heritage owes as much to the coming of the Santa Fe Railroad in 1880 as to the first Spanish colonial campaign of 1598. As the railroad brought capital and migrants into the region, Anglos posed an unprecedented challenge to Hispano wealth and political power. Yet unlike their counterparts in California and Texas, the Anglo newcomers could not wholly displace their Spanish-speaking rivals. Nor could they segregate themselves or the upper Rio Grande from the image, well-known throughout the Southwest, of the disreputable Mexican. Instead, prominent Anglos and Hispanos found common cause in transcending the region's Mexican character. Turning to colonial symbols of the conquistador, the Franciscan missionary, and the humble Spanish settler, they recast northern New Mexico and its people

Geography · Physics · Power (physics) · Thermodynamics · Archaeology and Natural History · Cuban History and Society · Latin American and Latino Studies · civilization · Colonial revival (Architecture) · Colonial revival (Art) · Ethnic identity · Ethnic relations · History · Intellectual life · New Mexico · Rio Grande Valley · Spanish Americans