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Country of the Cursed and the Driven
2022 WHA W. Turrentine Jackson Award for best first book on the history of the American West 2022 WHA David J. Weber Prize for the best book on Southwestern History In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas--a hotly contested land where states wielded little to no real power--local alliances and controversies, face-to-face relationships, and kin ties structured personal dynamics and cross-communal concerns alike. Country of the Cursed and the Driven brings readers into this world through a sweeping analysis of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo-American slaving regimes, illuminating how slaving violence, in its capacity to bolster and shatter families and entire communities, became both the fou...
Conquering Sickness
Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Conquering Sickness presents a comprehensive analysis of race, health, and colonization in a specific cross-cultural contact zone in the Texas borderlands between 1780 and 1861. Throughout this eighty-year period, ordinary health concerns shaped cross-cultural interactions during Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo colonization. Historians have shown us that Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo American settlers in the contested borderlands read the environment to determine how to live healthy, productive lives. Colonizers similarly outlined a culture of healthy living by observing local Native and Mexican p...
In Praise of the Ancestors
Apart from collective memories of lived experiences, much of the modern world's historical sense comes from written sources stored in the archives of the world, and some scholars in the not-so-distant past have described unlettered civilizations as "peoples without history." In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge about three Native groups. Susan Elizabeth RamÃrez reevaluates three case studies of oral traditions using positional inheritance--a system in which names and titles are inherited from one generation by another and thereby contribute to the formation of collective memories and a group ide...
The Limits of Liberty
"The Limits of Liberty chronicles the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border from a unique vantage of how "mobile peoples" assisted in constructing the international boundary from both sides"--
Far-Right Vanguard
"An examination of the far-right roots of mid-twentieth-century conservatism"--
The Forgotten Diaspora
The Forgotten Diaspora explores how Native Mexicans involved in the conquest of the Greater Southwest deployed a covert agency that enabled them to reconstruct Indigenous communities and retain key components of their identities though technically allied with and subordinate to Spaniards.
Once We Were Slaves
Origins (Bridgetown, 1793-1798) -- From Slave to Free (Bridgetown, 1801) -- From Christian to Jew (Suriname, 1811-12) -- The Tumultuous Island (Bridgetown, 1812-1817) -- Synagogue Seats (New York & Philadelphia, 1793-1818) -- The Material of Race (London, 1815-17) -- Voices of Rebellion (Bridgetown, 1818-24) -- A Woman Valor (New York, 1817-19) -- This Liberal City (Philadelphia, 1818-33) -- Feverish Love (New York, 1819-1830) -- When I am Gone (New York, Barbados, London, 1830-1847) -- Legacies (New York and Beyond, 1841-1860).
Scars of War
Best First Book Award from the History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta Scars of War examines the decisions of U.S. policymakers denying the Amerasians of Vietnam--the biracial sons and daughters of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers born during the Vietnam War--American citizenship. Focusing on the implications of the 1982 Amerasian Immigration Act and the 1987 Amerasian Homecoming Act, Sabrina Thomas investigates why policymakers deemed a population unfit for American citizenship, despite the fact that they had American fathers. Thomas argues that the exclusion of citizenship was a component of bigger issues confronting the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations: international ...
Conquering Sickness
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Racial and Ethnic Terminology -- Introduction -- 1 Medicine and Spanish Conquest: Health and Healing in Late Colonial Texas -- 2 The Health of the Missions: Spanish Friars, Coastal Indians, and Missionization in the Gulf Coast -- 3 Cholera and Nation: Epidemic Disease, Healing, and State Formation in Northern Mexico -- 4 Making Healthy American Settlements: U.S. Expansion and Anglo- American, Comanche, and Black Slave Health -- 5 Healthy Anglos, Unhealthy Mexicans: Health, Race, and Medicine in South Texas -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
