Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century - A History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Mexican American history, examining the various cases of return migration from the United States to Mexico following the war of 1846–8. As the United States expanded toward Mexico's northern frontiers, Mexicans in those areas now lost to the United States were seen as an ideal group to colonise and settle the fractured republic.