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  1. Frontiers in the Gilded Age
    Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917
    Author: Offenburger, Andrew
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

    The surprising connections between the American frontier and empire in southern Africa, and the people who participated in both This book begins in an era when romantic notions of American frontiering overlapped with Gilded Age extractive capitalism.... more

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    The surprising connections between the American frontier and empire in southern Africa, and the people who participated in both 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

     
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    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780300245257
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    Series: The Lamar Series in Western History
    Subjects: HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier and pioneer life; Grenzgebiet; Frontier <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 online resource (256 pages), 23 b-w illus
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)