The Limits of Liberty : Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border /
Nichols, James David,
The Limits of Liberty : Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border / James David Nichols. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource : map. - Borderlands and transcultural studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
9781496207234 9781496207258
Emigration and immigration.
Liberty.
Electronic Books.
JV6351 / .L565 2018
The Limits of Liberty : Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border / James David Nichols. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource : map. - Borderlands and transcultural studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--
9781496207234 9781496207258
Emigration and immigration.
Liberty.
Electronic Books.
JV6351 / .L565 2018