Both sides now : writing the edges of the North American West / Sheila McManus.

"Both Sides Now: Writing the Edges of the North American West brings together the best scholarship in a focused, synthetic survey of five themes in the history of the northern and southern borderlands: the borderlands as aboriginal homelands and the persistence of Indigenous territories and ways of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McManus, Sheila (Author)
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2022]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Connecting the greater west series.
Subjects:
Borderlands > West (U.S.) > Ethnic relations > History.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Citizenship > Social aspects > West (U.S.)
Group identity > West (U.S.)
Place (Philosophy)
Ethnology > West (U.S.) > Comparative method.
Lieu (Philosophie)
Citizenship > Social aspects.
Ethnology > Comparative method.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Group identity.
West United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 204 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Toward a Comparative Borderlands Methodology
  • Indigenous Borderlands
  • Making "Us" and "Them"
  • Border Enforcement
  • Capitalism blurs the binaries
  • Creating Complex Identities, Contesting the Borderlands
  • Epilogue. A Global Methodology
  • Notes