Smugglers, brothels, and twine historical perspectives on contraband and vice in North America's borderlands /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Carey, Elaine, 1967-, Marak, Andrae M. (Andrae Micheal)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Transnational crime > North America > History.
Smuggling > North America > History.
Prostitution > North America > History.
Border security > North America > History.
Borderlands > North America > History.
Criminalité internationale > Amérique du Nord > Histoire.
Contrebande > Amérique du Nord > Histoire.
Sécurité frontalière > Amérique du Nord > Histoire.
Régions frontalières > Amérique du Nord > Histoire.
Border security
Borderlands
Prostitution
Smuggling
Transnational crime
Staatsgrenze
Schmuggel
Grenzschutz
North America
USA.
Kanada
USA
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Esteblishing borders: Chinese immigrant smuggling to the United States via Mexico and Cuba, 1882-1916 / Robert Chao Romero ; Cree contraband or contraband Crees? : early Montanan experiences with transnational natives and the formation of lasting prejudice, 1880-1885 / Brenden Rensink ; Contraband twine : harvests, smuggling, and tariffs in the US-Canada borderlands in the early twentieth century / Sterling Evans ; Twilight of the tequileros : prohibition-era smuggling in the South Texas borderlands, 1919-1933 / George T. Díaz
  • Consolidating national space: Detroit's border brothel : sex tourism in Windsor, Ontario, 1945-1960 / Holly Karibo ; Official government discourses about vice and deviance : the early-twentieth-century Tohono O'odham / Andrae Marak and Laura Tuennerman ; Crossing the line : transnational drinking and the biopolitics of liquor regulation in Ontario, 1927-1944 / Dan Malleck ; Selling is more of a habit than using : narcotraficante Lola la Chata and her threat to civilization, 1930-1960 / Elaine Carey ; Preventing the invasion : LSD use in Canada during the sixties / Marcel Martel
  • Afterword: Crime on and across borders / Josiah McC. Heyman and Howard Campbell.

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