Política

Phillip B. Gonzales is a professor of sociology and director of the School of Public Administration at the University of New Mexico. He is the editor and a contributing author of Expressing New Mexico: Nuevomexicano Creativity, Ritual, and Memory and the author of Forced Sacrifice as Ethnic Protest: The Hispano Cause in New Mexico and the Racial Attitude Confrontation of 1933.

• List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Initializing Annexation Chapter 1. Nuevomexicano Politics and Society on the Eve of the American Conquest Chapter 2. Bloodless and Bloody Conquests, 1846-1847 Chapter 3. Integrative Conquest, 1847-1848 Part 2. Politica in the Ante Bellum Chapter 4. A Budding Binary, 1848-1852 Chapter 5. Mexican Democratic Party, 1853-1854 Chapter 6. American Democratic Party, 1854-1859 Part 3. Party Modalities in the Time of Civil War Chapter 7. Low Tide in the Partisan Divide, 1861 Chapter 8. Republican Toehold and the Partisan Normal, 1861-1863 Chapter 9. Bosque Redondo and the Rise of Jose Francisco Chavez, 1863-1865 Part 4. Political Agonism under Reconstruction Chapter 10. Party Definitions of the Colonizer, 1865-1867 Chapter 11. Politica Judaica e Literaria Chapter 12. A Contest for the Ages, 1867-1868 Part 5. Arriving Chapter 13. Republican Party Debut, 1867-1868 Chapter 14. Steady Republicans, Hazy Democrats, 1869 Chapter 15. Realized Political Parties, 1869-1871 Conclusions Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index

“This groundbreaking study of political activities in New Mexico during two decades before and after the Civil War reexamines the transition from Mexican to U.S. control. The result is a first-rate analysis that reinterprets colonization, reconstructs Euro-American and Nuevomexicano relations, and rewrites the prevailing historical narrative.”-David V. Holtby, author of Forty-Seventh Star: New Mexico’s Struggle for Statehood“Gonzales offers us a fascinating glimpse into the yearnings and actions of New Mexico’s politicos in the years following the United States’ war with Mexico. Far from being mere victims of conquest, these politicos were astute agents of power who shaped the political system and pioneered Latino politics in the United States.”-John Nieto-Phillips, author of The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s–1930s