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  • - The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century
    av John Weber
    452,-

    Reinterprets the United States' record on human and labour rights. This important book illuminates the way in which South Texas pioneered the low-wage, insecure, migration-dependent labor system on which so many industries continue to depend.

  • - Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
    av Julian Lim
    592,-

    With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colours rushed to the US-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a booming international hub of economic and human activity. Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African American migration, Julian Lim presents a fresh study of the multiracial intersections of the borderlands.

  • - Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
    av Miroslava Chavez-Garcia
    422 - 1 302,-

  • - Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850
    av Andrew J. Torget
    469,-

    Tells the remarkable story of how the cotton revolution of the early nineteenth century transformed northeastern Mexico into the western edge of the United States, and how the rise and spectacular collapse of the Republic of Texas as a nation built on cotton and slavery proved to be a blueprint for the Confederacy of the 1860s.

  • - Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877
    av Ryan Hall
    507 - 1 347,-

    With archival research from both the US and Canada, Ryan Hall shows for how the Blackfoot used their borderlands position to create one of North America's most vibrant and lasting Indigenous homelands. This book sheds light on a phase of Native and settler relations that is often elided in conventional interpretations of Western history.

  • - Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II
    av Elliott Young
    484,-

  • - Creating a Border and Dividing a People
    av Michel Hogue
    552,-

    Born of encounters between Indigenous women and Euro-American men in the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Plains Metis people occupied contentious geographic and cultural spaces. Michel Hogue explores how these communities of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry were profoundly affected by the efforts of nation-states to divide and absorb the North American West.

  • - Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910
    av Julie M. Weise
    582,-

  • - Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland
    av Holly M. Karibo
    522,-

  • - How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom
    av Mireya Loza
    464 - 1 285,-

  • - The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire
    av Kevin Waite
    1 303,-

    Examines the threads connecting South and West America during the slaveholding era, and that undermined the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevin Waite brings to light what contemporaries recognised but historians have described only in part: The struggle over slavery played out on a transcontinental stage.

  • - Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865-1941
    av Jessica M. Kim
    517,-

    In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small town to a global city against the backdrop of the US-Mexico borderlands, Gilded Age economics, and American empire.

  • av Gina M. Martino
    460,-

    Revealing the fundamental importance of martial womanhood in this era, Gina M. Martino places borderlands women in a broad context of empire, cultural exchange, violence, and nation building, demonstrating how women's war making was embedded in national and imperial strategies of expansion and resistance.

  • - Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867-1945
    av Andrea Geiger
    1 302,-

    Making a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through an examination of the northernmost stretches of the US-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the border from 1867 to the end of World War II.

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