Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 299 pages)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9780300245257
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0300245254
Series Statement:
The Lamar series in Western history
Content:
"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."--
Note:
"Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction -- The Titian in Tzintzuntzan : Frontier Adventures and the Development of Latent Wealth -- Working Frontier Dreams : Frederick Russell Burnham and the Global West -- A Borderless Faith : The Eatons' Mission to Mexico -- Boers Without Borders : South African Colonization in Chihuahua and New Mexico -- Frontier in the Borderlands : The Yaqui Peace Conference of 1911 -- Epilogue -- Appendix : Incidents of "Depredations" Compiled from Volumes in Oficialía Mayor, Fondo Ejecutivo, 1911-1913, AGES.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300225877
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0300225873
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Offenburger, Andrew Frontiers in the gilded age New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019] ISBN 0300225873
Language:
English
