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Forging the tortilla curtain : cultural drift and change along the United States-Mexico border, from the Spanish era to the present /

Thomas Torrans' narrative is a sweeping history of the 2000-mile-long borderlands from the time of the early Spanish intrusions in their endless quest for gold to the recent invasions of multi-nationals in their endless quest for cheap labor. It is a fascinating story of the long struggle to es...

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Основен автор: Torrans, Thomas.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Fort Worth : TCU Press, ℗♭2000.
Предмети:
Acculturation > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Social change > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
Acculturation.
International relations.
Social change.
Grenzgebiet.
Akkulturation.
Sozialer Wandel.
Mexican-American Border Region > History.
United States > Relations > Mexico.
Mexico > Relations > United States.
MEXICO.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
United States > .
USA.
Mexiko.
Electronic books.
History.
Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=69977
Подобни документи: Print version:: Forging the tortilla curtain.
Съдържание:
  • Part One. The economics of space. 1. Mexico in America
  • 2. Borderland
  • 3. Priests and presidios.
  • 4. Fiefs and filibusters.
  • 5. Land of the dispossessed.
  • 6. Windfall of the Wild Horse Desert.
  • Part Two. Dividing the continent. 7. Corridor to the Pacific.
  • 8. Americanizing Mexico.
  • 9. "Down to Mexico to serve mankind."
  • Part Three: A disparate unity.
  • 10. Bounties and barriers: from the palm of God's hand.
  • 11. Oriental opium and Mexican marijuana.
  • 12. Politics and profits of the "War on Drugs."
  • 13. Sin fronteras: toward a borderless world.

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