The limits of liberty : mobility and the making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico border /

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Author / Creator:Nichols, James David, author.
Imprint:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Description:xv, 287 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Early American places
Borderlands and transcultural studies
Early American places.
Borderlands and transcultural studies.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11615033
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ISBN:9781496205797
1496205790
9781496207234
9781496207241
9781496207258
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
Table of 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.