Limits of Liberty - Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.s.-Mexico Border

Informationen zum Autor James David Nichols is an assistant professor of history at City University of New York, Queensborough Community College.  Klappentext James David Nichols is an assistant professor of history at City University of New York! Queensborough Community College.¿ Zusammenfassung Chronicles the formation of the US-Mexico border from the perspective of the ""mobile peoples"" who assisted in determining the international boundary from both sides in the mid-nineteenth century. In this historic and timely study! James David Nichols argues against the many top-down connotations that borders carry! noting that the state cannot entirely dominate the process of boundary marking. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction “A Country in Which He Could Acquire Liberty”: The Making of Borderlands MobilityChapter 1 “La Frontera del Norte:” Lipan Apaches and the Troubled Rise of Mexico in the BorderlandsChapter 2 Racial Fault Lines: Immigrant Indians in MexicoChapter 3 “Impatient for the Promised Freedom”: Runaway Slaves in the Age of the Texan RevolutionChapter 4 “A Great System of Roaming:” Runaway Debt Peons and the Making of the International BorderChapter 5 Warriors in Want: Immigrant Tribes and Borderlands InsecurityChapter 6 The Line of Liberty: Runaway Slaves after the Treaty of Guadalupe HidalgoChapter 7 Bordering on the Illicit: Violence and the Making of the International LineChapter 8 “Not Even Seeming Friendship”: Lipan Apaches and the Promises and Perils of Play-off DiplomacyChapter 9 Sacrificed on the Altar of Liberty: Regionalism and Cooperation in the Age of VidaurriConclusion Mobility Uninterrupted: The Limits of LibertyBibliographyNotesIndex

Product details

• Authors: James David Nichols
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781496205797
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-0579-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Borderlands and Transcultural Studies; Borderlands and Transcultural; Borderlands and Transcultural Studies; Borderlands and Transcultural
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX), HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico