Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in the Mexican American Southwest - Rio Grande / Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Tradition Annotated edition

What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. This work makes the case that the hacienda offers the emblem of an ""antebellum,"" agrarian social order that predates the United States, also examining five novels and autobiographies.