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Fugitive landscapes : the forgotten history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands /
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.-Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terra...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2006.
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| Collection: | Lamar series in western history.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.-Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain. Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona-Sonora border, this book shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to domesticate nature and society within a transnational context. Efforts to tame a 'wild' frontier were stymied by labour struggles, social conflict, and revolution. "Fugitive Landscapes" explores the making and unmaking of the U.S.-Mexico border, telling how ordinary people resisted the domination of empires, nations, and corporations to shape transnational history on their own terms. By moving beyond traditional national narratives, it offers new lessons for our own border-crossing age |
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| Description: | "Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University." "Published with assistance from the Kingsley Trust Association Publication Fund established by the Scroll and Key Society of Yale College"--Title page verso |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300135329 0300135327 1281735086 9781281735089 030011091X 9780300110913 |