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Forging the tortilla curtain cultural drift and change along the United States-Mexico border, from the Spanish era to the present Cover Image

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Forging the tortilla curtain cultural drift and change along the United States-Mexico border, from the Spanish era to the present

Summary: Thomas Torrans' narrative is a sweeping history of the 2000-mile-long borderlands from the time of the early Spanish intrusions in their endless quest for gold to the recent invasions of multi-nationals in their endless quest for cheap labor. It is a fascinating story of the long struggle to establish a boundary as an institution and cultural margin of the two Americas -- an Anglo North and a Latin South.

Record details

ISBN: 9780875652313 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 087565231X (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780585414713 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0585414718 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 424 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Publisher: Fort Worth : TCU Press, ©2000.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-403) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part One. The economics of space. 1. Mexico in America -- 2. Borderland -- 3. Priests and presidios. -- 4. Fiefs and filibusters. -- 5. Land of the dispossessed. -- 6. Windfall of the Wild Horse Desert. -- Part Two. Dividing the continent. 7. Corridor to the Pacific. -- 8. Americanizing Mexico. -- 9. "Down to Mexico to serve mankind." -- Part Three: A disparate unity. -- 10. Bounties and barriers: from the palm of God's hand. -- 11. Oriental opium and Mexican marijuana. -- 12. Politics and profits of the "War on Drugs." -- 13. Sin fronteras: toward a borderless world.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.