Smeltertown : Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community /

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Nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande, at the heart of a railroad, mining, and smelting empire, Smeltertown was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who labored at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas. Using newspapers, personal archives, photographs, employee records, par...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perales, Monica
Corporate Author: William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Working class.
Mexican Americans > Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans.
Company towns.
Community life.
Collective memory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Company towns > Mexican-American Border Region > Case studies.
Collective memory > Texas > Smeltertown.
Community life > Texas > Smeltertown > History.
Smelting > Social aspects > Texas > Smeltertown > History.
Working class > Texas > Smeltertown > History.
Mexican Americans > Texas > Smeltertown > Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans > Texas > Smeltertown > Biography.
Mexican Americans > Texas > Smeltertown > History.
Texas > Smeltertown.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Smeltertown (Tex.) > Biography.
Smeltertown (Tex.) > History.
History.
Case studies.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande, at the heart of a railroad, mining, and smelting empire, Smeltertown was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who labored at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas. Using newspapers, personal archives, photographs, employee records, parish newsletters, and interviews with former residents, including her own relatives, Monica Perales unearths the history of this forgotten community.
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781469604985

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