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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"U.S. southwest"”.
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Capital Mediators: American Mining Engineers in the U.S. Southwest and Mexico, 1850-1914
… U.S. capital reached up to and across the southwestern border as part of an ongoing project of American territorial and economic expansion. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American mining engineers traveled all over the world as expert consultants and labor …
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Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958
… that troubles Anglo-centric constructions of the Southwest, its history, and cultural formation as a byproduct of westward expansionism. This project argues that early Mexican American writers offer an alternative paradigm of transnationalism for understanding the literature, culture, and …
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Ritual prehistory: A pueblo case study.
… in a case study of puebloan sites in the U.S. Southwest. Rather than attempting to identify prehistoric belief systems, it uses an artifact life-history approach to create expectations about how certain artifacts were made, used and especially disposed of in ritual contexts. Fill and floor …
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From 'Black-Eyed Girls' to the MMU (Mujeres Methotistas Unidas): Race, Religion and Gender in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
… by Anglo Methodist missionaries to the U.S. southwest immediately following the conquest of the northern half of Mexico in 1848.</p> <p>In order to understand the experiences of Mexican American women in relation to the history of Methodism in the southwest, this study explores the most …
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A Colorful Past: Turquoise and Social Identity in the Late Prehispanic Western Pueblo Region, A.D. 1275–1400
Turquoise is synonymous with the U.S. Southwest, occurring naturally in relative abundance and culturally prized for millennia. As color and material, turquoise is fundamental to the worldviews of numerous indigenous groups of the region, with notable links to moisture, sky, and personal and …
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WORKING AGAINST CORRUPTION: HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE SECURITY POSTURE AT PORTS-OF-ENTRY AND SECURE AMERICA’S SOUTHERN BORDER
… agencies, specifically along the U.S. Southwest Land Border, would benefit from resources available to the intelligence community (IC) to combat these threats. Injecting these resources directly to the operators engaged with the threat allows for more effective disruption to criminal …
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Latino encounters: Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans in postwar Michigan, 1929-1971
… of foodways and farm labor emerge in the U.S. Southwest and West Coast, my project questions region by centering the Midwest as a site of internal and international migration.
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Challenges and Possibilities of Emigrante Epistemology: Mexican Immigrants Caught in the Crossfire of Neo-liberalism within Post 9/11 United States
… took place in a metropolitan urban center in the southwestern region of the United States. The use of qualitative methods through in-depth interviews were conducted with each participant in order to gain their testimonios on how they made sense of the economic, social, and political policies …
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A geochemical look at obsidian procurement and exchange in the Medio period world : a case study 76 Draw (LA 156980)
… raw material procurement strategies in the U.S. Southwest. Here the results of the analysis of 180 obsidian artifacts recovered from 76 Draw, a Medio period (A.D.1200 to 1450) settlement in New Mexico are presented. My analysis of 33 artifacts was combined with data from previously sourced …
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
… communities in southeastern Mexico and the U.S. southwest. The protagonists grow and develop in a context where they need to build bridges between their European and Amerindian roots in the middle of external influences that complicate the construction of a new <em>mestizo</em> consciousness. In …
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Change in piñon-juniper woodland cover since Euro-American settlement: expansion versus contraction associated with soil properties
… piñon-juniper vegetation type of the U.S. Southwest. Fire suppression and grazing are often cited as the main drivers of these historic changes and have led to extensive tree-reduction treatments across the region. However, much of the scientific literature on piñon-juniper expansion dates …
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Americanization, Language Policy, and the Promise of Education: Public School Formation and Educational Attainment in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Nogales, Arizona, 1880-1942
… in other contemporary cities in the U.S. Southwest region? What types of nationalist discourses accompanied the formation of early schools in Nogales and throughout the greater borderlands region? The effects of these discourses on the educational attainment of Hispanic students in Nogales …
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Using Nd Isotopes to understand changes in continental weathering flux in Mid-Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) carbonate cycles
… Pennsylvanian loess deposits throughout the U.S. Southwest suggests an eolian source for the observed CWF. If an eolian interpretation is correct and we utilize recent climate modeling results for the late Paleozoic from Horton et al. (2012), which incorporates glacial-interglacial pCO2 changes …
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The face of empire: the cultural production of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and California, 1904–1916
… used its fair to exert control over the U.S. Southwest in an effort to forge an inland empire that would position the city as an imperial hub. The PCE employed scientific racism to justify white supremacy, Indian removal, and imperial expansion, both ""at home"" in the U.S. West and ""abroad"" …
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Effects of Climate and Ecological Processes on Engineered Uranium Disposal Cell Performance with Respect to Nearby Subsistence-Based Indigenous Communities
… cell covers to climate change in the U.S. Southwest. We extract monthly precipitation, daily minimum, and daily maximum temperatures to determine climate trends (mean annual temperatures, extreme conditions, and seasonal variation) of the recent past from high-resolution data sets. We also …