The Spanish Redemption: Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande / Edition 1

by Charles Montgomery

Overview

Charles Montgomery's 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 readable 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520229716
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	03/20/2002
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	1390L (what's this?)

About the Author

Charles Montgomery is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida.

Table of Contents

List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Hispano Fortunes in New Mexico, 1598–1900
2. The Race Issue and the "Spanish-American" in Party Politics, 1900–1920
3. Mission Architecture and Colonial Civility, 1904–1920
4. Discovering "Spanish Culture" at the Santa Fe Fiesta, 1919–1936
5. The Revival of Spanish Colonial Arts, 1924–1936
6. Regionalism and the Literature of the Soil, 1928–1938
Conclusion: The Coronado Cuarto Centennial and the Depletion of Spanish Heritage
Notes
Bibliography