Travis Jeffres

The Forgotten Diaspora

Mesoamerican Migrations and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Forgotten Diaspora Travis Jeffres explores how Native Mexicans involved in the conquest of the Greater Southwest pursued hidden agendas, deploying a covert agency that enabled them to reconstruct Indigenous communities and retain key components of their identities even as they were technically allied with and subordinate to Spaniards.

Produktdetails

• Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 158mm x 237mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781496226846
• ISBN-10: 1496226844
• Artikelnr.: 74173553

Autorenporträt

Travis Jeffres is a public historian with the City of Boise, Idaho. He was previously Duane King Postdoctoral Fellow at the Helmerich Center for American Research.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. People of the Land of Turquoise and Silver
2. La Guerra Tolteca-Chichimeca
3. Ending the Toltec-Chichimec War
4. Creating a New Tlaxcala
5. Indigenous Rulership at San Esteban, New Tlaxcala
6. The Nahuas and New Mexico
7. Sorceresses of Santa Fe
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index