Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749-1881
by Kyle Carpenter
University of North Texas Press, 2024
Cloth: 978-1-57441-945-0 | eISBN: 978-1-57441-955-9
Library of Congress Classification F392.R5C37 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.764400934
TOC
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
List of Maps and Images
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Searching for Profit in Settler Colonialism
Chapter 1. The Spanish Context: Setting European Foundations in the Rio Grande Borderlands, 1749–1821
Chapter 2. The Beales Colony Experiment
Chapter 3. British and French Borderlands Entrepreneurs in the Republic of Texas
Part 2: Networks, Modernity, and Economic Expansion
Chapter 4. Constructing Transnational Entrepreneurial Networks
Chapter 5. Walking in Tall Cotton
Chapter 6. Railroaded in the Rio Grande Borderlands
Epilogue
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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