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The Limits of Liberty : Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border /

"The Limits of Liberty chronicles the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border from a unique vantage of how "mobile peoples" assisted in constructing the international boundary from both sides"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nichols, James David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The making of borderlands mobility
  • La frontera del norte : Lipan Apaches and the troubled rise of Mexico in the borderlands
  • Racial fault lines : immigrant indians in Mexico
  • Impatient for the promised freedom : runaway slaves in the age of the Texan Revolution
  • A great system of roaming : runaway debt peons and the making of the international border
  • Warriors in want : immigrant tribes and borderlands insecurity
  • The line of liberty : runaway slaves after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • Bordering on the illicit : violence and the making of the international line
  • Not even seeming friendship : Lipan Apaches and the promises and perils of play-off diplomacy
  • Sacrificed on the altar of liberty : regionalism and cooperation in the age of Vidaurri
  • Mobility uninterrupted.