Bradley Folsom is Professor of History at Grayson College in Denison, Texas.
Bradley Folsom's Arredondo is a beautifully written and thoroughly engaging biography of the much-maligned and forgotten 'Caligula' of the northeastern provinces of New Spain. Eschewing facile moral judgements, Folsom provides a complex portrait of the Spanish royalist commander who during the Mexican War of Independence controlled - and allegedly terrorized - an area that included present-day Texas and Tamaulipas. Beyond Arredondo's notorious cruelty, Folsom highlights the political and social realities that gave rise to the choices men in positions of power, like Arredondo, were forced to make. For anybody interested in Mexican-U.S. borderland history, this book is a must."" - Will Fowler, author of Santa Anna of Mexico
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