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

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.
Subject:	Frontier and pioneer life -- Mexican-American Border Region. Frontier and pioneer life -- Africa, Southern. Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- 19th century. Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- 20th century. South Africa -- History -- 1836-1909.
Format:	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.

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Summary:	The surprising connections between the American frontier and empire in southern Africa, and the people who participated in both <br> <br> <br> <br> "A valuable first step toward creating a global history of the concepts of the frontier, borderlands, and colonialism."--Carol Higham, Reviews in American History <br> <br> <br> <br> This book begins in an era when romantic notions of American frontiering overlapped with Gilded Age extractive capitalism. In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop of many where Americans chased capitalist dreams beyond the United States. Crisscrossing the American West, southern Africa, and northern Mexico, Andrew Offenburger examines how these frontier spaces could glitter with grandiose visions, expose the flawed and immoral strategies of profiteers, and yet reveal the capacity for resistance and resilience that indigenous people summoned when threatened. Linking together a series of stories about Boer exiles who settled in Mexico, a global network of protestant missionaries, and adventurers involved in the parallel displacements of indigenous peoples in Rhodesia and the Yaqui Indians in Mexico, Offenburger situates the borderlands of the Mexican North and the American Southwest within a global system, bound by common actors who interpreted their lives through a shared frontier ideology. <br> <br> <br> <br> Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
Physical Description:	xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-283) and index.
ISBN:	0300225873 9780300225877