An American language : the history of Spanish in the United States /
An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of American history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United S...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | American crossroads ;
49. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: A language of politics, 1848-1902. United by land ; Translation, a measure of power ; Choosing language ; A language of citizenship ; The United States sees language
- Part two: A political language, 1902-1945. A language of identity ; The limits of Americanization ; Strategic pan-Americanism ; The federal government rediscovers Spanish ; Competing nationalisms : Puerto Rico and New Mexico.