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Author : Robert D. Wood
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Laredo (Tex.)
ISBN : 9781574411737
Annotation The author shows daily live in Laredo and the struggle to survive in a harsh environment from the 1750s - 1850s.
Author : Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822351856
In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He chronicles a history of violence resulting from multiple conquests, of resistance and accommodation to state power, and of changing ethnic and political identities. The redrawing of borders neither began nor ended the region's long history of unequal power relations. Nor did it lead residents to adopt singular colonial or national identities. Instead, their regionalism, transnational cultural practices, and kinship ties subverted state attempts to control and divide the population. Diverse influences transformed the borderlands as Spain, Mexico, and the United States competed for control of the region. Indian slaves joined Spanish society; Mexicans allied with Indians to defend river communities; Anglo Americans and Mexicans intermarried and collaborated; and women sued to confront spousal abuse and to secure divorces. Drawn into multiple conflicts along the border, Mexican nationals and Mexican Texans (tejanos) took advantage of their transnational social relations and ambiguous citizenship to escape criminal prosecution, secure political refuge, and obtain economic opportunities. To confront the racialization of their cultural practices and their increasing criminalization, tejanos claimed citizenship rights within the United States and, in the process, created a new identity. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
Author : George T. Díaz
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292761063
Winner, Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb County Heritage Foundation, 2015 Present-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings that stretches back to 1848, when attempts by Mexico and the United States to tax commerce across the Rio Grande upset local trade and caused popular resentment. Rather than acquiesce to what they regarded as arbitrary trade regulations, borderlanders continued to cross goods and accepted many forms of smuggling as just. In Border Contraband, George T. Díaz provides the first history of the common, yet little studied, practice of smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border. In Part I, he examines the period between 1848 and 1910, when the United States' and Mexico's trade concerns focused on tariff collection and on borderlanders' attempts to avoid paying tariffs by smuggling. Part II begins with the onset of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, when national customs and other security forces on the border shifted their emphasis to the interdiction of prohibited items (particularly guns and drugs) that threatened the state. Díaz's pioneering research explains how greater restrictions have transformed smuggling from a low-level mundane activity, widely accepted and still routinely practiced, into a highly profitable professional criminal enterprise.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11380328
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1300 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433081796405
A collected set of congressional documents of the 11th to the 55th Congress, messages of the Presidents of the United States, and correspondence of the State Dept. Many of these pamphlets have been catalogued separately under their respective headings.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Mexican-American Border Region
ISBN : NYPL:33433081773610
Author : Kathleen Da Camara
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781473381780
Laredo, Texas has a rich and fascinating history being on the border with America's neighbor to the south Mexico. This is a window into everyday life of the city, a must read for any keen amateur historian.
Author : Sam Lopez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135915698
This book examines how Chicana literature in three genres—memoir, folklore, and fiction—arose at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Lopez examines three women writers and highlights their contributions to Chicana writing in its earliest years as well as their contributions to the genres in which they wrote. The women -- Leonor Villegas de Magnón, Jovita Idar, and Josefina Niggli—represent three powerful voices from which to gain a clearer understanding of women’s lives and struggles during and after the Mexican Revolution and also, offer surprising insights into women’s active roles in border life and the revolution itself. Readers are encouraged to rethink Chicana lives, and expand their ideas of "Chicana" from a subset of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s to a vibrant and vigorous reality stretching back into the past.
Author : Craig Hanks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781405149006
This anthology features essays and book excerpts on technology and values written by preeminent figures in the field from the early 20th century to the present. It offers an in-depth range of readings on important applied issues in technology as well. Useful in addressing questions on philosophy, sociology, and theory of technology Includes wide-ranging coverage on metaphysics, ethics, and politics, as well as issues relating to gender, biotechnology, everyday artifacts, and architecture A good supplemental text for courses on moral or political problems in which contemporary technology is a unit of focus An accessible and thought-provoking book for beginning and advanced undergraduates; yet also a helpful resource for graduate students and academics
Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439126370
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy. An exhilarating tale of legend and heroism, Streets of Laredo is classic Texas and Western literature at its finest. Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena—once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. This long chase leads them across the last wild streches of the West into a hellhole known as Crow Town and, finally, into the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier.
Author : Voicu Mihnea Simandan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780557218431
A collection of 555 quotes on 171 topics: Academia * Achievements * Age * Airlines * Alcohol * Amateurs * America & The Americans * Anger * Animals * Beauty * Books * Boredom * Bosses * Britain & The British * Buddhism * Burma & The Burmese * Business * Capital Punishment * Cats * Children * Chinese, The* Christianity * Churches * Clothes * Cities * Communication * Communism * Conscience * Conspiracies * Countries * Cowards * Crying * Culture & Civilization * Curiosity * Dancing * Danger * Death * Desert * Desires * Destiny * Dignity * Dirt * Dogs * Dreams * Drinking * Duty * Education * Emotions * Enemies * English Language, The * Envy * Europe * Evil * Family * Faith * Fate * Fear * Fighting * Fitness * Food * Football * Foreigners * Free Will * Freedom * Friends * Friendship * Future * Germans * Generosity * Geology * God * Good & Evil * Gossip and many more...
Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351537377
Taking a fresh look at the interconnections between medieval images, texts, theater, and practices of viewing, reading and listening, this explicitly interdisciplinary volume explores various manifestations of performance and meanings of performativity in the Middle Ages. The contributors - from their various perspectives as scholars of art history, religion, history, literary studies, theater studies, music and dance - combine their resources to reassess the complexity of expressions and definitions of medieval performance in a variety of different media. Among the topics considered are interconnections between ritual and theater; dynamics of performative readings of illuminated manuscripts, buildings and sculptures; linguistic performances of identity; performative models of medieval spirituality; social and political spectacles encoded in ceremonies; junctures between spatial configurations of the medieval stage and mnemonic practices used for meditation; performances of late medieval music that raise questions about the issues of historicity, authenticity, and historical correctness in performance; and tensions inherent in the very notion of a medieval dance performance.
Author : John Henry Brown
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Vermont
ISBN : NYPL:33433094221847
Author : Kathleen Da Camara
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022884999
A travelogue of the author's journey to the border town of Laredo, Texas, and the surrounding areas along the Rio Grande river. The book provides a firsthand account of life in this unique region of the United States, including its rich cultural history and natural beauty. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.