Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio
222 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Paperback
Release Date:01 Oct 1995
ISBN:9780292765665
Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio
University of Texas Press
Since its first publication in 1991, this history of early San Antonio has won a 1992 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society and a Presidio La Bahía Award from the Sons of the Republic of Texas.
An absorbing social history of the lives of the intrepid settlers who rallied around their traditional institutions—mission centers, municipalities, and the military arm of the crown—to secure the northernmost frontier of New Spain and to convert the land, as much as they were capable, into a productive segment of the empire.... This volume merits a wide audience especially among social scientists engaged in providing meaning to the Mexican American community in Texas.
The exploration of the interrelationships among soldiers, civilian settlers, missionaries, and Indians in the San Antonio area is of special significance. This provides a refreshing approach for the study of early borderlands history, transcending the tendency among some historians to study these groups in isolation.
Gerald E. Poyo is a professor of history at St. Mary's University.
Gilberto Hinojosa is a professor emeritus of history at University of the Incarnate Word.
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Béxar: Profile of a Tejano Community, 1820-1832, by Jesús F. de la Teja and John Wheat
- II. Forgotten Founders: The Military Settlers of Eighteenth-Century San Antonio de Béxar, by Jesús F. de la Teja
- III. The Canary Islands Immigrants of San Antonio: From Ethnic Exclusivity to Community in Eighteenth-Century Béxar, by Gerald E. Poyo
- IV. The Religious-Indian Communities: The Goals of the Friars, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa
- V. Immigrants and Integration in Late Eighteenth-Century Béxar, by Gerald E. Poyo
- VI. Indians and Their Culture in San Fernando de Béxar, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa and Anne A. Fox
- VII. Independent Indians and the San Antonio Community, by Elizabeth A.H. John
- Conclusion: The Emergence of a Tejano Community
- Notes
- Selective Bibliography on Spanish Texas, 1685-1821
- Index
