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  • First Impressions

    A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest

    de David J. Weber ...
    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    A guide to the history and culture of the American Southwest, as told through early encounters with fifteen iconic sitesThis unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first non-natives to describe ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Beneath the Backbone of the World

    Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877

    de Ryan Hall ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains. As one of the most expansive and powerful Indigenous groups on the continent, they dominated the northern imperial borderlands of North America. The Blackfoot maintained their control even as their homeland became the site of ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Caught in the Current

    Mexico's Struggle to Regulate Emigration, 1940–1980

    de Irvin Ibargüen ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    Migration between the United States and Mexico is often compared to the river that runs along the border: a “flow” of immigrants, a “flood” of documented and undocumented workers, a “dam” that has broken. Scholars, journalists, and novelists often tell this story from a south-to-north perspective, emphasizing Mexican migration to the United States, and the American response to the influx of people ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Ancient House

    Constructing Community in the Seventeenth-Century New York Borderlands

    de Erin B. Kramer ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    While New Amsterdam has captured public imagination and scholarly attention for centuries, the Dutch borderland settlement that became Albany, New York, was no less vital to the development of early America. In The Ancient House, historian Erin Kramer examines how early relationships between the Dutch and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) built a foundation for the town’s oversized role in European and ... Leer más

    $20.89 USD

  • The Age of the Borderlands

    Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850

    de Andrew C. Isenberg ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    In The Age of the Borderlands, acclaimed historian Andrew C. Isenberg offers a new history of manifest destiny that breaks from triumphalist narratives of US territorial expansion. Isenberg takes readers to the contested borders of Spanish Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Minnesota at critical moments in the early to mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that the architects of ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Torn Asunder

    Republican Crises and Civil Wars in the United States and Mexico, 1848–1867

    de Erika Pani ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War and dramatically reshaped North American geopolitics by ceding half of Mexico’s territory to the United States. In the following decades, as conflicts over slavery in the United States and over the nature of nation, state, and religion in Mexico overwhelmed politics, both republics collapsed into civil war. In Mexico, internal ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Landscaping Patagonia

    Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina

    de María de los Ángeles Picone ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    In late nineteenth-century Latin America, governments used new scientific, technological, and geographical knowledge not only to consolidate power and protect borders but also to define the physical contours of their respective nations. Chilean and Argentine authorities in particular attempted to transform northern Patagonia, a space they perceived as “desert,” through a myriad of nationalizing ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Quitting the Nation

    Emigrant Rights in North America

    de Eric R. Schlereth ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    Perceptions of the United States as a nation of immigrants are so commonplace that its history as a nation of emigrants is forgotten. However, once the United States came into existence, its citizens immediately asserted rights to emigrate for political allegiances elsewhere. Quitting the Nation recovers this unfamiliar story by braiding the histories of citizenship and the North American ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Seeds of Empire

    Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

    de Andrew J. Torget ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • In Place of Mobility

    Railroads, Rebels, and Migrants in an Argentine-Chilean Borderland

    de Kyle E. Harvey ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    In the mid-nineteenth century, decades after independence in Latin America, borderlands presented existential challenges to consolidating nation-states. In Place of Mobility examines how and why these spaces became challenging to governments and what their meaningfulness is for our understanding of the development of a global world by examining one of those spaces: the Trans-Andean, an Argentine ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Metis and the Medicine Line

    Creating a Border and Dividing a People

    de Michel Hogue ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    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. Living in a disputed area of the northern Plains inhabited by various Indigenous nations and claimed by both the United States and Great Britain, the Metis emerged as a people with distinctive styles of speech ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • West of Slavery

    The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire

    de Kevin Waite ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through diplomacy, migration, and armed conquest. By the late 1850s, slaveholders and their allies had transformed the southwestern quarter of the nation – California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah – into a political client of the plantation states. ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD