In this work, which fits comfortably into the categories of new history and new western history, [Ramos] (Univ. of Houston) departs from the more traditional Lone Star accounts usually drafted by white male historians who paid little attention to indigenous peoples. John Waynesque characters won't be found in these pages; Ramos makes clear that a c...

Beyond the Alamo: forging Mexican ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861