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Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
, 2022 Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands and border lines, examining the ways in which Mexico\u27s north overlapped with America\u27s Southwest in the contexts of diplomacy, politics, economics, and military ...
Kiser, William S
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Plants, People, Planet, 2020 Societal Impact Statement Crop wild relatives—wild species closely related to cultivated plants—are valuable genetic resources for crop improvement, but gaps in knowledge constrain their conservation and limit their further use.
Colin K. Khoury +11 more
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Climate and the Radial Growth of Conifers in Borderland Natural Areas of Texas and Northern Mexico
Atmosphere, 2022 The forests of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States have been subjected to warmer temperatures, persistent drought, and more intense and widespread wildfire.
José Villanueva-Díaz +8 more
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard +2 more
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Lessons from Comparing the Two Southwests: Southwest China and Northwest New Spain/Southwest US
Journal of World-Systems Research, 2015 I compare and contrast two "southwestern"" frontiers: the southwestern United States. long northeast New Spain (short hand: New Mexico) and southwest China (short hand: Yunnan). Both have been. and even today remain. frontier zones.
Thomas D. Hall
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Borders in Transition: North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
L'Espace Politique, 2021 Although North American neighbours appear to be diverging significantly in politics, policies and outlooks, Canada, the United States, and Mexico remain linked by geography and the borders that also divide them.
Victor Konrad, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
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Iberian Scepticism in Istanbul: The Hebrew Philosophical Dialogue Attributed to Don Joseph Nasi
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT On 28 April 1577, the printer Joseph Ya’abetz in Constantinople printed a rare Hebrew pamphlet titled Ben Porat Yosef (Joseph, the Offspring of a Fertile Tree). Its author, Isaac ben Samuel Onkeneira, claims to report a philosophical debate between Don Joseph Nasi (1524–1579), the powerful Portuguese‐born agent at the Ottoman court, and a ...
Carsten L. Wilke
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Greasers, gringos and wetbacks: ventriloquizing the U.S. - Mexico borderlands in Gloria Anzaldúa's dramatic monologues [PDF]
, 2018 This article focuses on two dramatic monologues by Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa. In ‘We Call Them Greasers’ and ‘sobre piedras con lagartijos’, Anzaldúa uses the voices of an Anglo male colonist and a male border-crosser to ventriloquize the colonial ...
Alexander, Donna Maria
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Tijuana Transa: Transa as Metaphor and Theory on the US–Mexico Border
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2016 This essay explores the varied potential of “transa” as a new metaphor to describe the US–Mexico borderlands in the twenty-first century and the formal transactions used in the photo-textual essay Here Is Tijuana! (2006).
Jennifer A. Reimer
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Follow Me Into Math: Near‐Peer Influencers Take the Stage
School Science and Mathematics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Young people like to be entertained, and to entertain others. What if students were to invest enough of their time and effort into learning topics from our mathematics courses to become experts in the eyes of their peers? In this study we positioned college students and high school students as mathematical performers on the stage in front of ...
Aaron T. Wilson +3 more
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