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From South Texas to the Nation

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

From South Texas to the Nation

By John Weber

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In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, selectively enforcing immigration restrictions, toppling older political arrangements, and periodically imm...Show more

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9781469645575

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The University of North Carolina Press

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2018

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From South Texas to the Nation

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