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Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe
written by Gérard Prunier, fl. 1984 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009, originally published 2009), 570 page(s)
The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a swee...
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written by Gérard Prunier, fl. 1984 (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009, originally published 2009), 570 page(s)
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The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Gérard Prunier, fl. 1984
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic / Theme
Rwanda, Tutsi Genocide (1994), Genocide, Politics, International relations, Refugees, Economic conditions, War, Post Genocide Rwanda, 1994-, Rwandan Civil War and Genocide, April 7–July 15, 1994, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, History, International Response, Origins, Congolese, Rwandans, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2011 by Oxford University Press
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Agenda Items, Border Working Group, April 24-25, 1979
written by United States. Department of State. U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission, in Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978-1980 (RG40), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (April 1979), Records of the Department of Commerce, Office of Regional Economic Coordination, Southwest Border Regional Commission, Subject Files 1978-1980, Border Working Group Meeting - April 24-25 - Rm. 1406 State Department (Aldrete folder) , 2 page(s)
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written by United States. Department of State. U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission, in Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978-1980 (RG40), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (April 1979), Records of the Department of Commerce, Office of Regional Economic Coordination, Southwest Border Regional Commission, Subject Files 1978-1980, Border Working Group Meeting - April 24-25 - Rm. 1406 State Department (Aldrete folder) , 2 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
April 1979, 1979
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
United States. Department of State. U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Economic, social and cultural rights, Economic development, International relations, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Agenda - Plenary Session of the Border Working Group of the U.S.-Mexico Consultative Mechanism, June 4-5, 1980
written by United States. Department of State. U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission. Border Working Group, in General Records of the Department of Commerce, 1898 - 2000 (RG40). Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978 - 1980 (P 12), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (June 1980), Box 1, Border Working Group Meeting of June 4-5 1980 , 2 page(s)
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written by United States. Department of State. U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission. Border Working Group, in General Records of the Department of Commerce, 1898 - 2000 (RG40). Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978 - 1980 (P 12), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (June 1980), Box 1, Border Working Group Meeting of June 4-5 1980 , 2 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
June 1980, 1980
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Conference materials
Author / Creator
United States. Department of State. U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission. Border Working Group
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Administrative agencies, Government agencies, International relations, Association and organization conferences, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Agenda: Plenary Session of the Border Working Group of the U.S.-Mexico Consultative Mechanism, June 4-5, 1980
written by United States. Department of State. U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission, in Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978-1980 (RG40), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (June 1980), Records of the Department of Commerce, Office of Regional Economic Coordination, Southwest Border Regional Commission, Subject Files 1978-1980, Briefing Book U.S. - Mexican Bilateral Cultural Commission Talks July 17-18 1978 , 4 page(s)
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written by United States. Department of State. U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission, in Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978-1980 (RG40), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (June 1980), Records of the Department of Commerce, Office of Regional Economic Coordination, Southwest Border Regional Commission, Subject Files 1978-1980, Briefing Book U.S. - Mexican Bilateral Cultural Commission Talks July 17-18 1978 , 4 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
June 1980, 1980
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
United States. Department of State. U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Economic development, International relations, Law, Diplomacy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Agreement Between the United States of America and the United Mexican States for Cooperation in the Field of Housing and Urban Development,...
written by Santiago Roel, 1919-2001 and Cyrus Roberts Vance, 1917-2002, in Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978-1980 (RG40), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (16 February 1979), Records of the Department of Commerce, Office of Regional Economic Coordination, Southwest Border Regional Commission, Subject Files 1978-1980, Border Working Group Meeting - April 24-25 - Rm. 1406 State Department (Aldrete folder) , 5 page(s)
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written by Santiago Roel, 1919-2001 and Cyrus Roberts Vance, 1917-2002, in Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978-1980 (RG40), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (16 February 1979), Records of the Department of Commerce, Office of Regional Economic Coordination, Southwest Border Regional Commission, Subject Files 1978-1980, Border Working Group Meeting - April 24-25 - Rm. 1406 State Department (Aldrete folder) , 5 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
16 February 1979, 1979
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Santiago Roel, 1919-2001, Cyrus Roberts Vance, 1917-2002
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, International relations, Diplomacy, Law, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Baseball on the Border: A Tale of Two Laredos
written by Alan M. Klein, 1946- (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), 317 page(s)
From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional sports to represent two nations. Playing in the storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliate of major leag...
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written by Alan M. Klein, 1946- (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), 317 page(s)
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From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional sports to represent two nations. Playing in the storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliate of major league baseball), the "Tecos" had home parks on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, in Laredo, Texas and in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. In...
From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional sports to represent two nations. Playing in the storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliate of major league baseball), the "Tecos" had home parks on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, in Laredo, Texas and in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. In true border fashion, Mexican and American national anthems were played before each game, and the Tecos were operated by interests in both cities. Baseball on the Border is the story of the rise and unexpected demise of this surprising team. For Alan Klein, a cultural anthropologist specializing in sport, "the border" is almost a nation of its own. Having formed teams of players from both sides of the Rio Grande for almost a century, organizers and followers of the "Border Birds" often join forces but just as frequently squabble with each other in a chronic border tension. Throughout the book, Klein includes firsthand observations of the team and descriptions of its players. Readers will meet Dan Firova, the Tecos' beleaguered manager, a border-region native who nevertheless finds himself a target of the Mexican media. The "Ugly American," Willie Waite, is a young pitcher whose stunning success does nothing to diminish the disdain he has for his Mexican teammates. Ernesto Barraza, "The Trickster," once threw a no-hitter on only seventy-three pitches (on April Fool's Day, appropriately enough), but occasionally shows up at the park missing part of his uniform. And then there is Andres Mora, an aged slugger who, despite three seasons in major league baseball and a life of personal excesses, came within a few home runs of setting the all-time Mexican League record. This is just part of the roster of the Tecos and only a fraction of the lineup of Baseball on the Border. Anyone with an interest in baseball will be enlightened and entertained by this informative book.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Alan M. Klein, 1946-
Date Published / Released
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, International relations, Cultural identity, Sociology, Americans, Mexicans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1997 by Princeton University Press
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Briefing Book: U. S. - Mexican Bilateral Cultural Commission Talks July 17 - 18, 1978
written by U.S.-Mexico Joint Commission on Cultural Cooperation, in Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978-1980 (RG40), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (July 1978), Records of the Department of Commerce, Office of Regional Economic Coordination, Southwest Border Regional Commission, Subject Files 1978-1980, Briefing Book U.S. - Mexican Bilateral Cultural Commission Talks July 17-18 1978 , 98 page(s)
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written by U.S.-Mexico Joint Commission on Cultural Cooperation, in Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978-1980 (RG40), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (July 1978), Records of the Department of Commerce, Office of Regional Economic Coordination, Southwest Border Regional Commission, Subject Files 1978-1980, Briefing Book U.S. - Mexican Bilateral Cultural Commission Talks July 17-18 1978 , 98 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
July 1978, 1978
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
U.S.-Mexico Joint Commission on Cultural Cooperation
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Education, Cultural life, Cultural identity, The Arts, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Brownsville/Matamoros Railroad Relocation Plans
in Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978-1980 (RG40), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records, Records of the Department of Commerce, Office of Regional Economic Coordination, Southwest Border Regional Commission, Subject Files 1978-1980, Border Working Group Meeting - April 24-25 - Rm. 1406 State Department (Aldrete folder) , 1 page(s)
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in Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978-1980 (RG40), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records, Records of the Department of Commerce, Office of Regional Economic Coordination, Southwest Border Regional Commission, Subject Files 1978-1980, Border Working Group Meeting - April 24-25 - Rm. 1406 State Department (Aldrete folder) , 1 page(s)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Negotiation in government, Railroads, International relations, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Call for emergency delegate conference (b3354059)
in Pelling Collection, of University of London. Senate House Library (London, England) (20 October 1948) , 17 page(s)
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in Pelling Collection, of University of London. Senate House Library (London, England) (20 October 1948) , 17 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
20 October 1948, 1948
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Pamphlet
Topic / Theme
Czech Republic and Germany Border, Banks and banking, International relations, History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Material sourced from Senate House Library, University of London. Copyright © The University of London.
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Conference Record: Remarks of Cristobal P. Aldrete for Working Group on Border Tourism, U.S.-Mex. Consultative Mechanism, November 15, 1979
written by United States. Department of State. U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission. Border Working Group, in General Records of the Department of Commerce, 1898 - 2000 (RG40). Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978 - 1980 (P 12), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (15 November 1979), Box 1, Background/Issue Papers for Meeting with Mexican Governors , 6 page(s)
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written by United States. Department of State. U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission. Border Working Group, in General Records of the Department of Commerce, 1898 - 2000 (RG40). Southwest Border Regional Commission Meeting Proceedings, 1978 - 1980 (P 12), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (15 November 1979), Box 1, Background/Issue Papers for Meeting with Mexican Governors , 6 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
15 November 1979, 1979
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
United States. Department of State. U.S.-Mexico Binational Commission. Border Working Group
Person Discussed
Cristobal Aldrete, 1924-1991
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, International relations, Economic development, Tourism industry, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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