An American language : the history of Spanish in the United States / Rosina Lozano.
"An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. 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...
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | American crossroads ;
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Table of Contents:
- United by land
- Translation, a measure of power
- Choosing language
- A language of citizenship
- The United States sees language
- A language of identity
- The limits of Americanization
- Strategic pan-Americanism
- The federal government rediscovers Spanish
- Competing nationalisms : New Mexico and Puerto Rico.