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"""This is the most comprehensive book I’ve ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language.""—Jorge Ramos An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation. An American Language is a history that reimagines what it means to be an American—with profound implications for our own time."

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This is the most comprehensive book I've ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language. -- Jorge Ramos * Jorge Ramos *

This is the most comprehensive book I've ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language. -- Jorge Ramos-- (08/28/2018) Rosina Lozano's An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States is an outstanding contribution to historiography. It will become a standard reference on language in the American Southwest. Its wealth of primary sources and thematic interventions in a variety of topics brilliantly demonstrates just how much can be uncovered by a focus on that most basic of topics--language. -- (02/01/2019) An American Language is a well-written and -researched account of the complicated history of language in the United States and its relationship to power and people. --History of Education Quarterly (02/01/2019)

This is the most comprehensive book I've ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language. -- Jorge Ramos-- (08/28/2018)

Rosina Lozano's An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States is an outstanding contribution to historiography. It will become a standard reference on language in the American Southwest. Its wealth of primary sources and thematic interventions in a variety of topics brilliantly demonstrates just how much can be uncovered by a focus on that most basic of topics-language. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly * An American Language is a well-written and -researched account of the complicated history of language in the United States and its relationship to power and people. * History of Education Quarterly *

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Rosina Lozano is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University.

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