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Summary:

"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. Their actions challenged United States imperial expansion as they tried to populate the region with Europeans and dominate trade. Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande highlights the actions of folks like English-born John C. Beales, who convinced a party of Europeans to trek overseas and overland to the isolated Las Moras Creek to build a colony from scratch; Alexander Bourgeois d'Orvanne, who manipulated powerful French and German leaders to support a settlement scheme on the Rio Grande; Spanish-born José San Román and the way he constructed massive transatlantic networks of credit and exchange; and Joseph Kleiber from Strasbourg, who facilitated the construction of a European-owned railroad line along the Rio Grande"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Searching for Profit in Settler Colonialism
• The Spanish Context: Setting European Foundations in the Rio Grande Borderlands, 1749-1821
• The Beales Colony Experiment
• British and French Borderlands Entrepreneurs in the Republic of Texas
• Networks, Modernity, and Economic Expansion
• Constructing Transnational Entrepreneurial Networks
• Walking in Tall Cotton
• Railroaded in the Rio Grande Borderlands.

Author/Creator:

Carpenter, Kyle B., 1985- , author

Contributors:

University of North Texas Press , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European entrepreneurs in the borderlands, 1749-1881 [by Carpenter, K.B.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande [by Carpenter, K.B.] (Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2024] — ISBN 9781574419559; LCCN 2024016812; OCLC Number 1432002915)

Related Series:

Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell series; no. 2

Subjects:

Globalization — Texas — Lower Rio Grande Valley — History — 19th century

Business enterprises, Foreign — Texas — Lower Rio Grande Valley — History — 19th century

Colonial companies — Texas — Lower Rio Grande Valley — History — 19th century

Settler colonialism — Texas — Lower Rio Grande Valley — History — 19th century

Europeans — Texas — Lower Rio Grande Valley — History — 19th century

Entrepreneurship — Texas — Lower Rio Grande Valley — History — 19th century

Transnational history — Texas

Lower Rio Grande Valley (Tex.) — Economic conditions — 19th century

1800-1899

Business enterprises, Foreign

Colonial companies

Settler colonialism

Europeans

Entrepreneurship

Transnational history

Economic conditions

Globalization

Texas

Texas — Lower Rio Grande Valley

Europe

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
(Special Collections copy) Bound in black paper wrapped boards with gold embossed spine titles. Retains original dust jacket.

Physical Description:

x, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Physical Characteristics:

map; illustration

Call Numbers:

F392.R5 C37 2024

ISBNs:

9781574419450 (hardcover)
1574419455 (hardcover)
9781574419559 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024016811

OCLC Numbers:

1430574761