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Forging Arizona : a History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West.
In Forging Arizona Anita Huizar-Hernández looks back at a bizarre nineteenth-century land grant scheme that tests the limits of how ideas about race, citizenship, and national expansion are forged. During the aftermath of the U.S.-Mexico War and the creation of the current border, a con artist name...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in The Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Part I. Inventing the Peralta Land Grant; 1. Counterfeit Narratives: The Peralta Land Grant Archives and the Forging of the West; 2. Searching for Sofia: Race, Gender, and Authenticity at the 1895 Court of Private Land Claims; 3. Southwest Speculation: Newspaper Coverage of the Peralta Land Grant; Part II. (Re)membering the Peralta Land Grant; 4. Counterfeit Nostalgia: William Atherton DuPuy's Baron of the Colorados (1940); 5. The Baron Is like a Battleground: Samuel Fuller's Baron of Arizona (1950)
- Epilogue: Forgetting the Peralta Land GrantAcknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author