| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University." |
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"Published with assistance from the Kingsley Trust Association Publication Fund established by the Scroll and Key Society of Yale College"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index. |
| Contents |
Hidden histories -- Frontier legacies. Ghosts of empires past -- Borderland dreams -- Border crossings. Industrial frontiers -- The Mexican cornucopia -- Transnational passages -- Contested terrain. Development and disorder -- Insurgent landscapes -- Remapping the borderlands. |
| Summary |
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 labour 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mexican-American Border Region -- History.
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Mexican-American Border Region -- Economic conditions.
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Copper mines and mining -- Mexican-American Border Region -- History.
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Copper mines and mining. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Truett, Samuel, 1966- Fugitive landscapes. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006 030011091X (DLC) 2006009071 (OCoLC)64897823 |
| ISBN |
9780300135329 (electronic book) |
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0300135327 (electronic book) |
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1281735086 |
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9781281735089 |
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030011091X (alkaline paper) |
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9780300110913 |
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