Fugitive landscapes [[electronic resource] ] : the forgotten history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / / Samuel Truett
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| Autore: |
Truett Samuel <1966->
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| Titolo: |
Fugitive landscapes [[electronic resource] ] : the forgotten history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / / Samuel Truett
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 972/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Copper mines and mining - Mexican-American Border Region - History |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mexican-American Border Region History |
| Mexican-American Border Region Economic conditions | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fugitive landscapes |
| ISBN: | 1-281-73508-6 |
| 9786611735081 | |
| 0-300-13532-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777402803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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