Frontiers in the gilded age : adventure, capitalism, and dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, 1880-1917 / Andrew Offenburger.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Offenburger, Andrew, author.

Contributor:

• Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

• Lamar series in western history
• The Lamar series in Western history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Frontier and pioneer life.
• Mexican-American Border Region--History--19th century.
• Mexican-American Border Region--History--20th century.
• South Africa--History--1836-1909.
• South Africa.
• History.
• Frontier and pioneer life--Mexican-American Border Region.
• Frontier and pioneer life--Africa, Southern.
• Southern Africa.

Physical Description:

xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]

Summary:

In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop beyond the United States where Americans chased capitalist dreams. Crisscrossing the American West, southern Africa, and northern Mexico, Andrew Offenburger examines how frontier spaces could glitter with potential and grandiose dreams, expose the flawed and immoral strategies of profiteers, and yet reveal the capacity for resistance and resilience that Indigenous people summoned when threatened. Through a series of stories, Offenburger explores how a shared frontier ideology shaped a global system.

Contents:

• 1 The Titian in Tzintzuntzan: Frontier Adventures and the Development of Latent Wealth p. 13
• 2 Working Frontier Dreams: Frederick Russell Burnham and the Global West p. 45
• 3 A Borderless Faith: The Eatons' Mission to Mexico p. 78
• 4 Boers Without Borders: South African Colonization in Chihuahua and New Mexico p. 109
• 5 Frontier in the Borderlands: The Yaqui Peace Conference of 1911 p. 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-283) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

• 0300225873
• 9780300225877

OCLC:

1055264212

Online:

The Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund Home Page