Frontiers in the gilded age : adventure, capitalism, and dispossession from southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, 1880-1917 /

In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop beyond the United States where Americans chased capitalist dreams. Crisscrossing the American West, southern Africa and northern Mexico, Andrew Offenburger examines how frontier spaces could glitter with potential and...

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