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Pol�tica offers a stunning revisionist understanding of the early political incorporation of Mexican-origin peoples into the U.S. body politic in the nineteenth century. Historical sociologist Phillip B. Gonzales reexamines the fundamental issue in New Mexico's history, namely, the dramatic shift in national identities initiated by Nuevomexicanos when their province became ruled by the United States. Gonzales provides an insightful, rigorous, and controversial interpretation of how Nuevomexicano political competition was woven into the Democratic and Republican two-party system that emerged in the United States between the 1850s and 1912, when New Mexico became a state. Drawing on newly di...
The biography of James Baird Weaver, a two-time presidential candidate and a three term member of Congress. His life is told from his childhood move with his family from Ohio to Iowa, to his enlisting into the Civil War, and finally to his leadership of the Greenback Party. He was one of the supporters of the women's vote, and he sought encouragement from the African American voters in all of his presidential candidate elections making him a radical in the U.S. Congress.
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