Connecting the Greater West Series – serie
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Working Women Into the Borderlands
Inbunden, 2014
265 kr
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In Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hernández sheds light on how women’s labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women’s labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital …
Power and Control in the Imperial Valley
Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900-1940
Häftad, 2016
282 kr
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Power and Control in the Imperial Valley examines the evolution of irrigated farming in the Imperial-Mexicali Valley, an arid desert straddling the California-Baja California border. Bisected by the international boundary line, the valley drew American investors determined to harness the nearby …
Farming Across Borders
A Transnational History of the North American West
Av Timothy P. Bowman, Kristin Hoganson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
754 kr
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Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and …
Both Sides Now
Writing the Edges of the North American West
Inbunden, 2022
558 kr
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How do borderlands work? How do they maintain their distinctive features in the face of concerted efforts on the part of nation-states to make each of their borderlines into a harsh demarcation? According to most contemporary political discourse and popular perceptions, the two borders of the …
Native but Foreign
Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands
Inbunden, 2018
467 kr
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In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who …
Working Women Into the Borderlands
Häftad, 2014
251 kr
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In Working Women into the Borderlands, author Sonia Hernández sheds light on how women’s labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women’s labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital …
Pesos and Dollars
Entrepreneurs in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1880-1940
Inbunden, 2014
581 kr
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The commercial world of South Texas between 1880 and 1940 provided an attractive environment for many seeking to start new businesses, especially businesses that linked the markets and finances of the United States and Mexico. Entrepreneurs regularly crossed the physical border in pursuit of …
Power and Control in the Imperial Valley
Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900-1940
Inbunden, 2014
510 kr
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Power and Control in the Imperial Valley examines the evolution of irrigated farming in the Imperial-Mexicali Valley, an arid desert straddling the California–Baja California border, bisected by the international boundary line.Benny Andrés analyzes and traces the bi-national competition over the …
Transnational Indians in the North American West
Av Clarissa Confer, Andrae Marak m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
524 kr
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This collection of eleven original essays goes beyond traditional, border-driven studies to place the histories of Native Americans, indigenous peoples, and First Nation peoples in a larger context than merely that of the dominant nation.As Transnational Indians in the North American West shows, …
Blood Oranges
Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands
Av Tim Bowman
Inbunden, 2016
510 kr
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Blood Oranges traces the origins and legacy of racial differences between Anglo Americans and ethnic Mexicans (Mexicannationals and Mexican Americans) in the South Texasborderlands in the twentieth century. Author Tim Bowmanuncovers a complex web of historical circumstances that causedethnic …
Perfect Fence
Untangling the Meanings of Barbed Wire
Av Lyn Ellen Bennett, Scott Abbott
Inbunden, 2017
467 kr
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Barbed wire is made of two strands of galvanized steel wire twisted together for strength and to hold sharp barbs in place. As creative advertisers sought ways to make an inherently dangerous product attractive to customers concerned about the welfare of their livestock, and as barbed wire became …
Fanáticos, Exiles, and Spies
Revolutionary Failures on the US-Mexico Border, 1923–1930
Inbunden, 2019
524 kr
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Borders and boundaries are porous, especially in the context of political revolutions. Historian Julian F. Dodson has uncovered the story of postrevolutionary Mexico's attempts to protect its northern border from various plots hatched by groups exiled in the United States. Such plots sought to …
