Frontiers in the Gilded Age
Subtitle: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U. S. -Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300225877
Description: 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 grandiose dreams, expose the flawed and immoral strategies of profiteers, and yet reveal the capacity for resistance and resilience that Indigenous people summoned when threatened. Through a series of stories, Offenburger explores how a shared frontier ideology shaped a global system.