Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749–1881
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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…
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Date:
September 2024
Creator:
Carpenter, Kyle B.
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