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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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America in the World, Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S. - Mexico Border
written by Rachel St. John, 1976-, in America in the World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, originally published 2011), 297 page(s)
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary...
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written by Rachel St. John, 1976-, in America in the World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, originally published 2011), 297 page(s)
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Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on t...
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on the desert border to the west of the Rio Grande, this book explains the origins of the modern border and places the line at the center of a transnational history of expanding capitalism and state power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving across local, regional, and national scales, St. John shows how government officials, Native American raiders, ranchers, railroad builders, miners, investors, immigrants, and smugglers contributed to the rise of state power on the border and developed strategies to navigate the increasingly regulated landscape. Over the border's history, the U.S. and Mexican states gradually developed an expanding array of official laws, ad hoc arrangements, government agents, and physical barriers that did not close the line, but made it a flexible barrier that restricted the movement of some people, goods, and animals without impeding others. By the 1930s, their efforts had created the foundations of the modern border control apparatus. Drawing on extensive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, Line in the Sand weaves together a transnational history of how an undistinguished strip of land became the significant and symbolic space of state power and national definition that we know today.
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Global Issues
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Book
Author / Creator
Rachel St. John, 1976-
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Series
America in the World
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Ethnic relations, International relations, Political boundaries, Sociology, Geography, Politics & Policy, History, Mexicans, Americans, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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CONTENTS: MAY, JUNE, 1972
edited by Stan Pietlock; in Amex-Canada, Vol. 3 no. 4, Whole Number 29, May-June 1972, American Expatriate in Canada (Ontario: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1972)
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edited by Stan Pietlock; in Amex-Canada, Vol. 3 no. 4, Whole Number 29, May-June 1972, American Expatriate in Canada (Ontario: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1972)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Front/back matter
Contributor
Stan Pietlock
Date Published / Released
1972
Publisher
Amex-Canada Enterprises
Series
American Expatriate in Canada
Topic / Theme
Exile, Amnesty, Vietnam War, 1956-1975
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edited by Stan Pietlock; in Amex-Canada, Vol. 3 no. 6, Whole Number 31, November 1972, American Expatriate in Canada (Ontario: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1972)
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edited by Stan Pietlock; in Amex-Canada, Vol. 3 no. 6, Whole Number 31, November 1972, American Expatriate in Canada (Ontario: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1972)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Front/back matter
Contributor
Stan Pietlock
Date Published / Released
1972
Publisher
Amex-Canada Enterprises
Series
American Expatriate in Canada
Topic / Theme
Citizenship, Military desertion, Exile, Expatriates, Vietnam War, 1956-1975
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American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 2, Issue 2, Amex-Canada, Vol. 2 no. 2, Whole Number 18, 1970
edited by Stan Pietlock, in American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Ontario: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1970), 33 page(s)
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edited by Stan Pietlock, in American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 2, Issue 2 (Ontario: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1970), 33 page(s)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Periodical issue
Contributor
Stan Pietlock
Date Published / Released
1970
Publisher
Amex-Canada Enterprises
Series
American Expatriate in Canada
Topic / Theme
Draft evasion, Law, Amnesty, Vietnam War, 1956-1975, Vietnam War
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American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 2, Issue 7, Amex-Canada, Vol. 2 no. 7, Whole Number 23, 1970
edited by Stan Pietlock, in American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 2, Issue 7 (Ontario: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1970), 48 page(s)
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edited by Stan Pietlock, in American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 2, Issue 7 (Ontario: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1970), 48 page(s)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Periodical issue
Contributor
Stan Pietlock
Date Published / Released
1970
Publisher
Amex-Canada Enterprises
Series
American Expatriate in Canada
Topic / Theme
Draft evasion, Government policy, Amnesty, Vietnam War, 1956-1975, Vietnam War
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American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 3, Issue 2, Amex-Canada, Vol. 3 no. 2 Whole Number 27, Jan-Feb. 1972
edited by Stan Pietlock, in American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 3, Issue 2 (Toronto, ON: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1972), 47 page(s)
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edited by Stan Pietlock, in American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 3, Issue 2 (Toronto, ON: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1972), 47 page(s)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Periodical article
Contributor
Stan Pietlock
Date Published / Released
1972
Publisher
Amex-Canada Enterprises
Series
American Expatriate in Canada
Topic / Theme
Draft evasion, Government policy, Vietnam War, 1956-1975, Vietnam War
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American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 3, Issue 3, Amex-Canada, Vol. 3 no. 3, Whole Number 28, March-April 1972
edited by Stan Pietlock, in American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 3, Issue 3 (Toronto, ON: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1972), 79 page(s)
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edited by Stan Pietlock, in American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 3, Issue 3 (Toronto, ON: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1972), 79 page(s)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Periodical issue
Contributor
Stan Pietlock
Date Published / Released
1972
Publisher
Amex-Canada Enterprises
Series
American Expatriate in Canada
Topic / Theme
Draft evasion, Amnesty, Government policy, Vietnam War, 1956-1975, Vietnam War
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American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 3, Issue 5, Amex-Canada, Vol. 3 no. 5, Whole Number 30, July-August 1972
edited by Dee Knight, in American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 3, Issue 5 (Toronto, ON: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1972), 63 page(s)
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edited by Dee Knight, in American Expatriate in Canada, Volume 3, Issue 5 (Toronto, ON: Amex-Canada Enterprises, 1972), 63 page(s)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Periodical issue
Contributor
Dee Knight
Date Published / Released
1972
Publisher
Amex-Canada Enterprises
Series
American Expatriate in Canada
Topic / Theme
Draft evasion, Government policy, Social activism and activists, Vietnam War, 1956-1975, Vietnam War
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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)
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