|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910451684303321 |
|
|
Autore |
Truett Samuel <1966-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Fugitive landscapes [[electronic resource] ] : the forgotten history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / / Samuel Truett |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-281-73508-6 |
9786611735081 |
0-300-13532-7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (272 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
The Lamar Series in Western History |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Copper mines and mining - Mexican-American Border Region - History |
Electronic books. |
Mexican-American Border Region History |
Mexican-American Border Region Economic conditions |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
"Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University." |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-248) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Hidden Histories -- 1 Ghosts of Empires Past -- 2 Borderland Dreams -- 3 Industrial Frontiers -- 4 The Mexican Cornucopia -- 5 Transnational Passages -- 6 Development and Disorder -- 7 Insurgent Landscapes -- Epilogue: Remapping the Borderlands -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies 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 labor struggles, social conflict, and revolution. Fugitive Landscapes explores the making and unmaking of |
|
|
|
|