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 : Yale University Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 299 pages) : illustrations, maps
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. Frontier and pioneer life. Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- 19th century. Mexican-American Border Region -- History -- 20th century. South Africa -- History -- 1836-1909. Southern Africa. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. South Africa. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13513189

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ISBN:	9780300245257 0300245254 9780300225877 0300225873
Notes:	"Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University." Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"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."--
Other form:	Print version: Offenburger, Andrew. Frontiers in the gilded age. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019] 0300225873

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