A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

According to census projections, by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the overwhelming majority of these will be of Mexican descent. This dramatic demographic shift is reshaping politics, culture, and fundamental ideas about American identity. Neil Foley, a leading Mexican American historian, offers a sweeping view of the evolution of Mexican America, from a colonial outpost on Mexico's northern frontier to a twenty-first-century people integral to the nation they have helped build.

"Compelling...Readers of all political persuasions will find Foley's intensively researched, well-documented scholarly work an instructive, thoroughly accessible guide to the ramifications of immigration policy."
-Publishers Weekly

"For Americans long accustomed to understanding the country's development as an east-to-west phenomenon, Foley's singular service is to urge us to tilt the map south-to-north and to comprehend conditions as they have been for some time and will likely be for the foreseeable future...A timely look at and appreciation of a fast-growing demographic destined to play an increasingly important role in our history."
-Kirkus Reviews

About the Author
Neil Foley holds the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History at Southern Methodist University.

Awards
Nominated for Norris and Carol Hundley Award 2015 and James A. Rawley Prize 2015 and Ray Allen Billington Prize 2015 and Merle Curti Award 2015 and Pulitzer Prizes 2015 and Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award 2015 and Bancroft Prize 2015 and New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize 2014 and John Hope Franklin Publication Prize 2015 and David J. Weber-Clements Prize 2015 and Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize 2015 and Francis Parkman Prize 2015.



Book Information
ISBN 9780674975354
Author Neil Foley
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint The Belknap Press
Publisher Harvard University Press