UID:
edocfu_9960947640302883
Format:
1 online resource (319 pages).
ISBN:
0-300-24525-4
Series Statement:
The Lamar Series in Western History
Content:
The surprising connections between the American frontier and empire in southern Africa, and the people who participated in both This book begins in an era when romantic notions of American frontiering overlapped with Gilded Age extractive capitalism. In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop of many where Americans chased capitalist dreams beyond the United States. Crisscrossing the American West, southern Africa, and northern Mexico, Andrew Offenburger examines how these frontier spaces could glitter with grandiose visions, expose the flawed and immoral strategies of profiteers, and yet reveal the capacity for resistance and resilience that indigenous people summoned when threatened. Linking together a series of stories about Boer exiles who settled in Mexico, a global network of protestant missionaries, and adventurers involved in the parallel displacements of indigenous peoples in Rhodesia and the Yaqui Indians in Mexico, Offenburger situates the borderlands of the Mexican North and the American Southwest within a global system, bound by common actors who interpreted their lives through a shared frontier ideology.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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A Note on Orthography --
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Introduction --
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One. The Titian in Tzintzuntzan --
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Two. Working Frontier Dreams --
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Three. A Borderless Faith --
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Four. Boers Without Borders --
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Five. Frontier in the Borderlands --
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Epilogue --
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Appendix: Incidents of "Depredations" Compiled from Volumes in Oficialía Mayor, Fondo Ejecutivo, 1911-1913, AGES --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-300-22587-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300245257
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