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

Explores the making and unmaking of the US - Mexico border, telling how ordinary people resisted the domination of empires, nations and corporations to shape transnational history on their own terms. This book shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to domesticate nature and society within a transnational context.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Truett, Truett Samuel
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2008
• EAN: 9780300143317
• ISBN: 978-0-300-14331-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: The Lamar Series in Western History; Lamar Series in Western Histor; Lamar Series in Western Histor; The Lamar Series in Western History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Mexico, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas