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¡Viva George! celebrating Washington's birthday at the US-Mexico border /
"For more than a century, the border cities of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have celebrated George Washington's birthday with parades, pageants, and other festivities. This project uses that long-standing tradition as a lens to examine binational relations and cross-border...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. From Border Capricho to Border Scaffolding
- Part I. Playing for Power
- 1. Playing Indian, Playing Colonial
- 2. Playing Mexican
- Part II. Playing under Duress
- 3. Hurricane Alice and the International Bridge Closure Crisis
- 4. Paso Libre
- 5. Us, Them, and Festive Security
- Conclusion. Why Study Border Enactments?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index