Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749-1881 - Couverture rigide

Carpenter, Kyle B.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1574419455 ISBN 13 : 9781574419450

Editeur : University of North Texas Press,U.S., 2024

Synopsis

Often obscured in the history of the nineteenth-century US-Mexico borderlands, European-born entrepreneurs played a definitive role in pushing the Lower Rio Grande borderlands into Atlantic markets. Though they were often stymied by mismanagement, notions of ethnic and cultural superiority, and eruptions of violence, these entrepreneurs persistently attempted to remake the region into a modern commercial utopia.

Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande highlights the actions of folks like English-born John C. Beales, who convinced a party of Europeans to trek to the isolated Las Moras Creek to build a colony from scratch; Alexander Bourgeois d'Orvanne, who manipulated powerful French and German leaders to support a settlement scheme on the Rio Grande; Spanish-born José San Román and the way he constructed massive transatlantic networks of credit and exchange; and Joseph Kleiber from Strasbourg, who facilitated the construction of a European-owned railroad line along the Rio Grande.

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À propos de l?auteur

KYLE B. CARPENTER is the associate vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain in Mena, Arkansas. He has written articles for Southwestern Historical Quarterly and the Journal of South Texas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of North Texas Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1574419455
• ISBN 13: 9781574419450
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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