Forging the tortilla curtain [[electronic resource] ] : cultural drift and change along the United States-Mexico border, from the Spanish era to the present / / by Thomas Torrans
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Torrans Thomas
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Forging the tortilla curtain [[electronic resource] ] : cultural drift and change along the United States-Mexico border, from the Spanish era to the present / / by Thomas Torrans
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| Pubblicazione: | Fort Worth, : TCU Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (439 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 972/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Acculturation - Mexican-American Border Region - History |
| Social change - Mexican-American Border Region - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mexican-American Border Region History |
| United States Relations Mexico | |
| Mexico Relations United States | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-403) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Foreword: Mobility and myth -- Part One: The economics of space -- Mexico in America -- Borderland -- Priests and presidios -- Fiefs and filibusters -- Land of the dispossessed -- Windfall of the wild horse desert -- Part Two: Dividing the continent -- Corridor to the Pacific -- Americanizing Mexico -- "Down to Mexico to serve mankind" -- Part Three: A disparate unity -- Bounties and barriers -- From the palm of God's hand -- Oriental opium and Mexican marijuana -- Politics and profits of the "War on Drugs" -- Sin fronteras: toward a borderless world -- Epilog: Containment and commitment -- Notes -- Selected readings. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Forging the tortilla curtain |
| ISBN: | 0-585-41471-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780172803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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