Tejas, la primera desmembración de Méjico

This is the foundational history of Mexico's first territorial catastrophe, written by a diplomat who understood the political currents that shaped it. Carlos Pereyra traces the slow unraveling of Mexican authority in Texas: from the fatal decision to invite Anglo settlers into Mexican territory, through the brewing tensions of the 1830s, to the 1836 revolution and final 1845 annexation by the United States. He examines the fatal miscalculations of Mexican leadership, the insatiable hunger of American expansionism, and the complex forces that turned a Mexican province into a foreign nation. Written mere decades after the events, this work carries the urgency of living memory. What makes it essential reading today is its unapologetic Mexican perspective on events usually narrated only from the American side. Pereyra does not merely recount dates and battles; he dissects how a nation loses its territory and what that loss means for collective identity. This is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the origins of the U.S.-Mexico border and the enduring weight of territorial loss in Latin American historical consciousness.