{"product_id":"the-limits-of-liberty-mobility-and-the-making-of-the-eastern-u-s-mexico-border-hardback-9781496205797","title":"The Limits of Liberty; Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border (Hardback) 9781496205797","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Limits of Liberty\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames David Nichols (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496205797\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 July 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 6 photos, 5 illustrations, 3 maps, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border from the perspective of the “mobile peoples” who assisted in determining the international boundary from both sides in the mid-nineteenth century. In this historic and timely study, James David Nichols argues against the many top-down connotations that borders carry, noting that the state cannot entirely dominate the process of boundary marking. Even though there were many efforts on the part of the United States and Mexico to define the new international border as a limit, mobile peoples continued to transgress the border and cross it with impunity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Transborder migrants reimagined the dividing line as a gateway to opportunity rather than as a fence limiting their movement. Runaway slaves, Mexican debt \u003ci\u003epeones\u003c\/i\u003e, and seminomadic Native Americans saw liberty on the other side of the line and crossed in search of greater opportunity. In doing so they devised their own border epistemology that clashed with official understandings of the boundary. These divergent understandings resulted in violence with the crossing of vigilantes, soldiers, and militias in search of fugitives and runaways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Limits of Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the border attracted migrants from both sides and considers border-crossers together, whereas most treatments thus far have considered discrete social groups along the border. Mining Mexican archival sources, Nichols is one of the first scholars to explore the nuance of negotiation that took place between the state and mobile peoples in the formation of borders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003cbr\u003eA Country in Which He Could Acquire Liberty”\u003cbr\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e The Making of Borderlands Mobility\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003cbr\u003eLa Frontera del Norte:”\u003cbr\u003e Lipan Apaches and the Troubled Rise of Mexico in the Borderlands\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Racial Fault Lines: Immigrant Indians in Mexico\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003cbr\u003eImpatient for the Promised Freedom”\u003cbr\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e Runaway Slaves in the Age of the Texan Revolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003cbr\u003eA Great System of Roaming:”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Runaway Debt Peons and the Making of the International Border\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Warriors in Want: Immigrant Tribes and Borderlands Insecurity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Line of Liberty:\u003cbr\u003e Runaway Slaves after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bordering on the Illicit:\u003cbr\u003e Violence and the Making of the International Line\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003cbr\u003eNot Even Seeming Friendship”\u003cbr\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e Lipan Apaches and the Promises and Perils of Play-off Diplomacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sacrificed on the Altar of Liberty:\u003cbr\u003e Regionalism and Cooperation in the Age of Vidaurri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mobility Uninterrupted: The Limits of Liberty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBibliography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599884677400,"sku":"9781496205797","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-limits-of-liberty-mobility-and-the-making-of-the-eastern-u-s-mexico-border-hardback-9781496205797","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}