Forging the tortilla curtain : cultural drift and change along the United States-Mexico border, from the Spanish era to the present /
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Author / Creator: | Torrans, Thomas. |
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Imprint: | Fort Worth : TCU Press, ©2000. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 424 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11115611 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.