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Beyond Mountains

Maroons and Rebellions in the Borderlands of Northern Mexico, 1600-1840
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Beyond Mountains is a longue duree history of fugitivity, survivalism, and insurgency in the heart of North America. Reconstructing the worlds of mobile and multi-ethnic communities, Max Flomen details generations of rebellious collaboration and anticolonial reinvention across the borderlands of northern Mexico and the American Southwest, arguing that militant Indigenous factions, often religiously inspired, waged a protracted struggle against the Spanish, French, Mexican, and U.S. empires by collaborating with the mostly forgotten figures of the frontier underworld--vagabonds, apostates, fugitives, and captives. Beyond Mountains employs the concept of marronage, broadly defined as escaping colonized spaces to form new communities, to examine how converging motives and close coordination allowed the dispossessed of the Southwest borderlands to create a revolutionary form of sovereignty. Moving back and forth from flight to confrontation, these borderlands insurgents defied policies of confinement, discrimination, and exploitation by infiltrating settlements, manipulating information, and extracting resources in pursuit of their autonomy. Where previous historians have viewed anticolonial rebels through isolated incidents, Flomen treats them as a centuries-long movement against imperial control. By taking seriously the networks of small-scale, anti-state societies, Flomen renders legible the coalitions that had little tolerance for the dictates of colonial authorities.
Max Flomen is an assistant professor of history at West Virginia University.
"Beyond the pale of European control in North America, individuals of different races and ethnicities banded together to oppose colonialism. Beyond Mountains is nothing less than a major study of these outsiders who struck back."--Andres Resendez, author of The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America "Max Flomen's Beyond Mountains stands among the rare breakthrough moments in the wider field of borderlands scholarship. Daring in temporal range and regional scope, as well as conceptualization, this book will change how we understand an array of peoples who shaped two nations while defending their own."--James F. Brooks, author of Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
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