Andres Resendez is an American

United States

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 historian.

Andres Resendez is a historian

Historian

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 at the University of California, Davis

University of California, Davis

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. His specialties are Mexican history, early exploration and colonization of the Americas

Americas

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, and borderlands history.

Books

• A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, Basic Books, 2007.

• Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850,

Cambridge University Press. 2005.

• A Texas Patriot on Trial in Mexico: José Antonio Navarro and the Texan Santa Fe

Expedition, edited and translated with an introduction and notes by Andrés
Reséndez. Dallas: DeGolyer Library/Clements Center for Southwest Studies,
2005.

• Caught Between Profits and Rituals: National Contestation in Texas and New Mexico, 1821–1848, University of Chicago, 1997