Frontiers in the gilded age : adventure, capitalism, and dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, 1880-1917 /

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Author / Creator:Offenburger, Andrew, author.
Imprint:New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]
Description:xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:English
Series:The Lamar series in Western history
Lamar series in western history.
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11900415
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ISBN:0300225873
9780300225877
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-283) and index.
Summary:In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop beyond the United States where Americans chased capitalist dreams. Crisscrossing the American West, southern Africa, and northern Mexico, Andrew Offenburger examines how frontier spaces could glitter with potential and grandiose dreams, expose the flawed and immoral strategies of profiteers, and yet reveal the capacity for resistance and resilience that Indigenous people summoned when threatened. Through a series of stories, Offenburger explores how a shared frontier ideology shaped a global system.