| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 299 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The Lamar series in Western history
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Lamar series in western history.
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| Note |
"Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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."-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- 19th century.
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Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- 20th century.
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South Africa -- History -- 1836-1909.
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South Africa. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1836-1909 |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Mexican-American Border Region.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Africa, Southern.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. |
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Southern Africa. |
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 19th Century. |
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North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Offenburger, Andrew. Frontiers in the gilded age. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019] 0300225873 (DLC) 2018961531 (OCoLC)1055264212 |
| ISBN |
9780300245257 (electronic book) |
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0300245254 (electronic book) |
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9780300225877 (hardcover) |
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0300225873 (hardcover) |
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