Settler colonial historiographies focus on success: Kyle B. Carpenter, ‘A Failed Venture in the Nueces Strip: Misconceptions and Mismanagement of the Beales Rio Grande Colony, 1832–1836’, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 123, 4, 2020, pp. 420-442 | settler colonial studies blog

Settler colonial historiographies focus on success: Kyle B. Carpenter, ‘A Failed Venture in the Nueces Strip: Misconceptions and Mismanagement of the Beales Rio Grande Colony, 1832–1836’, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 123, 4, 2020, pp. 420-442

29Mar20

Excerpt: Historians of Mexican Texas rarely study the empresario grants that failed. Scholars generally relegate the unfulfilled contracts that Mexico awarded to land agents to populate its northern territories to footnotes or brief paragraphs, while the success stories continue to produce books and articles.

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