Both Sides Now : Writing the Edges of the North American West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McManus, Sheila.

Series:

Connecting the Greater West Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McManus, Sheila.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Place (Philosophy).

West United States.

Local Subjects:

McManus, Sheila.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West brings together the best scholarship in a focused, synthetic survey of five themes in the history of the northern and southern borderlands: the borderlands as aboriginal homelands and the persistence of Indigenous territories and ways of being; imperial and national efforts to create binary notions of territory and identity; regulatory efforts aimed stopping or limiting the movement of certain people across their borders; the way the cross-border movement of capital, goods, and people, usually aided by state power, weakened those efforts; and the complex, binary-refusing identities that persist in borderlands communities. Historian Sheila McManus uses these themes to highlight the commonalities between the two borderlands' histories and provides an overview and a starting point for experts and newcomers in the field of North American borderlands history to address new questions. By conceptualizing both borders together and focusing particular attention on race and gender as well as empire and nation, Both Sides Now provides a unique methodology in North American scholarship that emphasizes the connections between these borderlands and others around the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Toward a Comparative Borderlands Methodology

Indigenous Borderlands

Making "Us" and "Them"

Border Enforcement

Capitalism blurs the binaries

Creating Complex Identities, Contesting the Borderlands

Epilogue. A Global Methodology

Notes

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index.

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ISBN:

1-64843-000-7

9781648430008

OCLC:

1573146150