{"product_id":"the-hispano-homeland","title":"The Hispano Homeland","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeep in the American Southwest  in the mountains and river valleys of northern New Mexico  a distinctive group of people have made their home for four hundred years. Descendants of the settlers who moved into this most northern periphery of New Spain late in the sixteenth century  they exhibit clear cultural differences from other Spanish-speaking people of the Borderlands. In this carefully researched  clearly written book  Richard L. Nostrand interprets the Hispanos experience in geographical terms. He demonstrates that their unique intermixture with Pueblo Indians  nomad Indians  Anglos  and Mexican Americans  combined with isolation in their particular natural and cultural environments  have given them a unique sense of place--a sense of homeland. Several processes shaped and reshaped the Hispano Homeland. Initial colonization left the Hispanos relatively isolated from cultural changes in the rest of New Spain  and gradual intermarriage with Pueblo and nomad Indians gave them new cultural features. As their numbers increased in the eighteenth century  they began to expand their Stronghold outward from the original colonies. In the early nineteenth century  their isolation ended with the beginning of trade with Anglos from the east  who presented them with economic attractions that drew Hispano workers into a peripheral Outland area. At about the same time  Spanish-speaking immigrants  bringing with them a Mexican culture  began to enter the Stronghold and the Outland. Economic attractions and Mexican and Anglo competition led to village depopulation and the diffusion of many Hispanos throughout the urban areas of the Southwest. Nostrand examines historical  geographical  and census documents and oral information to determine the extent of the Hispano Homeland through time. Its heyday was about 1900  when it extended over an area the size of Utah and two-thirds of its population were Hispano. Today it is eroded and less majestic  but it still stands apart--a distinctive island in America  the only surviving colonial Spanish subculture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44947577208885,"sku":"ByrdShop_0806124148","price":227.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780806124148.jpg?v=1770019399","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-hispano-homeland","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}