Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio

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.

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. (New Mexico Historical Review) 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. (Journal of Texas Catholic History and Culture)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. BÉxar: Profile of a Tejano Community, 1820-1832, by JesÚs F. de la Teja and John WheatII. Forgotten Founders: The Military Settlers of Eighteenth-Century San Antonio de BÉxar, by JesÚs F. de la TejaIII. The Canary Islands Immigrants of San Antonio: From Ethnic Exclusivity to Community in Eighteenth-Century BÉxar, by Gerald E. PoyoIV. The Religious-Indian Communities: The Goals of the Friars, by Gilberto M. HinojosaV. Immigrants and Integration in Late Eighteenth-Century BÉxar, by Gerald E. PoyoVI. Indians and Their Culture in San Fernando de BÉxar, by Gilberto M. Hinojosa and Anne A. FoxVII. Independent Indians and the San Antonio Community, by Elizabeth A.H. JohnConclusion: The Emergence of a Tejano CommunityNotesSelective Bibliography on Spanish Texas, 1685-1821Index