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The southern exodus to Mexico : migration across the borderlands after the American Civil War /

"After the Civil War, a handful of former Confederate leaders joined forces with the Mexican emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg to colonize Mexico with former American slaveholders. Their plan was to develop commercial agriculture in the Mexican state of Coahuila under the guidance of former slave...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wahlstrom, Todd W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
Colección:Borderlands and transcultural studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Migration across the borderlands after the American Civil War
  • White and black Southerners migrate to Mexico after the American Civil War
  • Southern colonization and the Texas-Coahuila borderlands
  • Southern colonization and the fall of the Mexican Empire, 1866-67
  • Southern colonization, railroads, and U.S. and Mexican modernization
  • Conclusion : regions and nations.