ISBN:
9780520945500
,
0520945506
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online Ressource (246 p.)
,
ill., map.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Hendricks, Tyche Wind doesn't need a passport
DDC:
303.48209721
Schlagwort(e):
Social Science
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration
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Social conditions
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Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions
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North America
;
Mexican-American Border Region
;
Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions
;
North America ; Mexican-American Border Region
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by car and by foot, on horseback, and in the back of a pickup truck. She has shared meals with border residents, listened to their stories, and visited their homes, churches, hospitals, farms, and jails. In this dazzling portrait of one of the least understood and most debated regions in the country, Hendricks introduces us to the ordinary Americans and Mexicans who live there--cowboys and Indians, factory workers and physicians, naturalists and nuns. A new picture of the borderlands emerges, and we find that this
Anmerkung:
"Portions of this work originally appeared, in different form, in the San Francisco Chronicle series "On The Border. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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