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Title:
The limits of liberty : mobility and the making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico border / James David Nichols.
Author:
Nichols, James David, author.
Publication Information:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Call Number:
F786 .N525 2018
Abstract:
"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.
ISBN:
9781496205797
Series:
Early American places

Borderlands and transcultural studies

Early American places.

Borderlands and transcultural studies.
Physical Description:
xv, 287 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
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