Forging the tortilla curtain : cultural drift and change along the United States-Mexico border, from the Spanish era to the present /

Thomas Torrans' narrative is a sweeping history of the 2000-mile-long borderlands from the time of the early Spanish intrusions in their endless quest for gold to the recent invasions of multi-nationals in their endless quest for cheap labor. It is a fascinating story of the long struggle to es...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Torrans, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fort Worth : TCU Press, ©2000.
Temas:
Acculturation > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Social change > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Acculturation
International relations
Social change
Grenzgebiet
Akkulturation
Sozialer Wandel
Mexican-American Border Region > History.
United States > Relations > Mexico.
Mexico > Relations > United States.
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Histoire.
Mexico
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
United States
Mexiko
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One. The economics of space. 1. Mexico in America
  • 2. Borderland
  • 3. Priests and presidios.
  • 4. Fiefs and filibusters.
  • 5. Land of the dispossessed.
  • 6. Windfall of the Wild Horse Desert.
  • Part Two. Dividing the continent. 7. Corridor to the Pacific.
  • 8. Americanizing Mexico.
  • 9. "Down to Mexico to serve mankind."
  • Part Three: A disparate unity.
  • 10. Bounties and barriers: from the palm of God's hand.
  • 11. Oriental opium and Mexican marijuana.
  • 12. Politics and profits of the "War on Drugs."
  • 13. Sin fronteras: toward a borderless world.

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