Fugitive Landscapes The Forgotten History of the U. S. -Mexico Borderlands

Name: Fugitive Landscapes The Forgotten History of the U. S. -Mexico Borderlands
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ISBN: 9780300143317

ISBN-10: 0300143311

ISBN-13: 9780300143317

Edition: 2008

Authors: Samuel Truett

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Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies 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 0;wild1; frontier were stymied by labor struggles, social conflict, and…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English