Name: edge effects: the border-name places (en Inglés)
SKU: 19511386
Price: 1050.87 MXN
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Author: Temple, Robert D.
ISBN: 9780595504336

portada edge effects: the border-name places (en Inglés)

edge effects: the border-name places (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Robert D. Temple

Editorial

iUniverse

Año

2008

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

708

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x4.3 cm

Peso

1.18 kg.

ISBN

0595504337

ISBN13

9780595504336

N° edición

0002

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Historia de américa
Guías de viaje: vacaciones de aventura

edge effects: the border-name places (en Inglés)

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There's something fascinating about border towns. Who hasn't crossed the line into another state to buy fireworks, gamble, or even to get married? Here are border towns with names as unique as the places themselves, names that bridge the boundaries. Robert D. Temple brings you a quirky, fascinating, and wholly entertaining look at more than eighty North American border towns in Edge Effects. With an adventurer's heart and a historian's keen eye, Temple explores life on the edge and how these places have made their place in history. There's big-city Mexicali and empty-quarter Idavada, idyllic Vir-Mar Beach and whiskey-soaked Mondak. Then there's prairie-bleak Alsask, mountain-high Wyocolo, and palmy Florala. And who could forget Texarkana? Along with finding these towns in the first place comes adventure in exploring them, by highway, four-wheel-drive, boots, and kayak, and in encountering memorable locals: historians, farmers, waitresses, cops, forest rangers, railroaders, and ne'er-do-wells. But even more, these places lead us to investigate concepts of borders, boundaries, frontiers, margins, and marginality, as well as survey lines, battle lines, picket lines, and color lines. Edge Effects brilliantly examines how frontiers enrich cultures and boundaries define them. But more importantly, it reveals how edges shape local history-and our lives.