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Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the Oodham (La Frontera: People and Their Environments in the US-Mexico Borderlands)
Thomas E. Sheridan
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Description for Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the Oodham (La Frontera: People and Their Environments in the US-Mexico Borderlands)
Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
From the actions of Europeans in the seventeenth century to the real estate deals of the modern era, people making a living off the land in southern Arizona have been repeatedly robbed of their way of life. History has recorded more than three centuries of speculative failures that never amounted to much but left dispossessed people in their wake. This book seeks to excavate those failures, to examine the new social spaces the schemers struggled to create and the existing social spaces they destroyed. Landscapes of Fraud explores how the penetration of the evolving capitalist world-system created and destroyed communities ... Read more
From the actions of Europeans in the seventeenth century to the real estate deals of the modern era, people making a living off the land in southern Arizona have been repeatedly robbed of their way of life. History has recorded more than three centuries of speculative failures that never amounted to much but left dispossessed people in their wake. This book seeks to excavate those failures, to examine the new social spaces the schemers struggled to create and the existing social spaces they destroyed. Landscapes of Fraud explores how the penetration of the evolving capitalist world-system created and destroyed communities ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816527496
SKU
V9780816527496
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99-1
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