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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

972/.1

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

Inglese

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



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.