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<p>Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.</p> <p>The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. Yet national histories usually overlook these complex connections. <i>Continental Crossroads</i> rediscovers this forgotten terrain, laying the foundations for a new borderlands history at the crossroads of Chicano/a, Latin American, and U.S. history. Drawing on the historiographies and archives of both the U.S. and Mexico, the authors chronicle the transnational processes that bound both nations together between the early nineteenth century and the 1940s, the formative era of borderlands history.</p> <p>A new generation of borderlands historians examines a wide range of topics in frontier and post-frontier contexts. The contributors explore how ethnic, racial, and gender relations shifted as a former frontier became the borderlands. They look at the rise of new imagined communities and border literary traditions through the eyes of Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and Indians, and recover transnational border narratives and experiences of African Ame

Author

Samuel Truett and Elliott Young

Publisher

Duke University Press, 2004.

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822333890

Subjects

History, Humanities