The Limits of Liberty Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border / James David Nichols.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, James David, author.

Series:

Borderlands and transcultural studies.

Borderlands and transcultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexico--Boundaries--United States--19th century.

Mexico.

United States--Boundaries--Mexico--19th century.

United States.

Mexican-American Border Region--History--19th century.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

Summary:

"The Limits of Liberty chronicles the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border from a unique vantage of how "mobile peoples" assisted in constructing the international boundary from both sides"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The making of borderlands mobility

La frontera del norte : Lipan Apaches and the troubled rise of Mexico in the borderlands

Racial fault lines : immigrant indians in Mexico

Impatient for the promised freedom : runaway slaves in the age of the Texan Revolution

A great system of roaming : runaway debt peons and the making of the international border

- Warriors in want : immigrant tribes and borderlands insecurity

The line of liberty : runaway slaves after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Bordering on the illicit : violence and the making of the international line

Not even seeming friendship : Lipan Apaches and the promises and perils of play-off diplomacy

Sacrificed on the altar of liberty : regionalism and cooperation in the age of Vidaurri

Mobility uninterrupted.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496207234

1496207238

9781496207258

1496207254

OCLC:

1035556497