Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749–1881

— Vol. 2: of Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell Series

Published: September, 2024  Pages: 272  Features: 3 b&w illus. 8 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.

Often obscured in the history of the nineteenth-century US-Mexico borderlands, European-born entrepreneurs played a definitive role in pushing the Lower Rio Grande borderlands into Atlantic markets. Though they were often stymied by mismanagement, notions of ethnic and cultural superiority, and eruptions of violence, these entrepreneurs persistently attempted to remake the region into a modern commercial utopia. more... about Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749–1881