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Forging the Tortilla Curtain

Cultural Drift and Change Along the United States-Mexico Border, from the Spanish Era to the Present

By: Thomas Torrans

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Forging the Tortilla Curtain

Cultural Drift and Change Along the United States-Mexico Border, from the Spanish Era to the Present

By: Thomas Torrans

Forging the Tortilla Curtain reveals how the region got to be that way."--BOOK JACKET.

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TCU Press

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087565231X

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9780875652313

The Magic Curtain: the Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song

By: Thomas Torrans

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The Magic Curtain: the Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song

By: Thomas Torrans

Explores the various ways that life in the Mexican-American borderlands has been reflected in fiction and film, as well as in the corridos--the ballads and other songs celebrating the lives and struggles of borderlands people.

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258

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TCU Press

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0875652573

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9780875652573

Defying Empire

Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York

By: Thomas M. Truxes

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Defying Empire

Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York

By: Thomas M. Truxes

This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years’ War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed to end North America’s wartime trade with the French, New York’s merchant elite conducted a thriving business in the French West Indies, insisting that their behavior was protected by long practice and British commercial law. But the government in London viewed it as treachery, and its subsequent efforts to discipline North American commerce inflamed the colonists.Through fast-moving events and unforgettable characters, historian Thomas M. Truxes brings eighteenth-century New York and the Atlantic world to life. There are spies, street riots, exotic settings, informers, courtroom dramas, interdictions on the high seas, ruthless businessmen, political intrigues, and more. The author traces each phase of the city’s trade with the enemy and details the frustrations that affected both British officials and independent-minded New Yorkers. The first book to focus on New York City during the Seven Years’ War, Defying Empire reveals the important role the city played in hastening the colonies’ march toward revolution.

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305

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Yale University Press

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0300150431

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9780300150438

Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette

Charleston, South Carolina, 1787–1797

By: Thomas Brown,Leah Sims

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Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette

Charleston, South Carolina, 1787–1797

By: Thomas Brown,Leah Sims

Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797 is a collection of more than one thousand transcribed advertisements from Charleston’s daily newspaper. Each advertisement portrays, in miniature, a human drama of courage and resistance to unjust authority. The advertisements give insight not only into slave resistance, agency, and culture, but also into eighteenth century material life, economy, and racial ideology. The ads are also a rich source of data about the individual slaves themselves, their relationships, family connections, and life experiences. The book is accompanied by a website, fugitiveslaves.com. The website allows users to search the results of a comprehensive content analysis of the advertisements.

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407

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498507824

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9781498507820

Seeking Hyde

By: Thomas Reed

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Seeking Hyde

By: Thomas Reed

Thomas Reed’s debut novel, Seeking Hyde, recounts the fascinating history of Robert Louis Stevenson’s epic horror story, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It is the tale of a young author defying his father’s wishes by becoming a spinner of romantic yarns. It is the tale of his American wife, ten years older than he, driving her husband hard to write one more great novel before his chronic lung disease carries him away. It is the tale of Stevenson reeling under charges from the mother of an old friend that he had fueled her son’s fatal alcoholism through his recklessly Bohemian ways. Seeking Hyde sticks closely to the biographical record as Robert Louis Stevenson struggles to write another book to be the successor to Treasure Island. After the infamous two characters, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, take form in a dream, Stevenson writes passionately for three days, convinced that he has crafted his masterpiece. His wife Fanny, a willful and demanding gypsy, offers a scathing critique, obliging him to start over from the beginning. While the revised tale is published to great acclaim, it is ultimately blamed for inspiring a gruesome series of murders in London’s East End. From that tragic historical irony, Seeking Hyde moves beyond the actual story of how Jekyll and Hyde came to be to explore the realm of “what if?” Desperate to address his own guilt, Stevenson enters the dark underworld of Victorian London. As he follows a twisted path through this midnight landscape, the author-turned-detective wrestles with the social demons of prostitution, police corruption, and the hypocrisy of powerful men—ultimately coming face-to-face with Jack the Ripper himself. 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist

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431

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Beaufort Books

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0825307716

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9780825307713

Irish-American Trade, 1660-1783

By: Thomas M. Truxes

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Irish-American Trade, 1660-1783

By: Thomas M. Truxes

This book assaults well-established myths depicting Ireland's transatlantic trade as subordinate to British interests.

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468

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Cambridge University Press

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0521526167

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9780521526166

Fishes of Arkansas

By: Henry W. Robison,Thomas M. Buchanan

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Fishes of Arkansas

By: Henry W. Robison,Thomas M. Buchanan

The second edition of Fishes of Arkansas, in development for more than a decade, is an extensive revision and expansion of the first edition, including reclassifications, taxonomic changes, and descriptions of more than thirty new species. An invaluable reference for anyone interested in the state’s fish population—from professional ichthyologists, fisheries biologists, and managers of aquatic resources, to amateur naturalists and anglers—this new edition provides updated taxonomic keys as well as detailed descriptions, photographs, and line drawings to aid identification of the state’s 243 fish species. There is also much information on the distribution and biology of each species, including descriptions of habitat, foods eaten, reproductive biology, and conservation status. This project and the preparation of this publication was funded in part by a grant from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

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995

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University of Arkansas Press

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1682261034

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9781682261033

Forging the Tortilla Curtain

Cultural Drift and Change Along the United States-Mexico Border, from the Spanish Era to the Present

By: Thomas Torrans

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Forging the Tortilla Curtain

Cultural Drift and Change Along the United States-Mexico Border, from the Spanish Era to the Present

By: Thomas Torrans

Forging the Tortilla Curtain reveals how the region got to be that way."--BOOK JACKET.

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TCU Press

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The Magic Curtain: the Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song

By: Thomas Torrans

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Forging the Tortilla Curtain

Forging the Tortilla Curtain

The Magic Curtain: the Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song

The Magic Curtain: the Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song

Defying Empire

Defying Empire

Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette

Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette

Seeking Hyde

Seeking Hyde

Irish-American Trade, 1660-1783

Irish-American Trade, 1660-1783

Fishes of Arkansas

Fishes of Arkansas

Forging the Tortilla Curtain

Forging the Tortilla Curtain

The Magic Curtain: the Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song

The Magic Curtain: the Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song

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