Andrew Offenburger
Biographic Data
| ID | 240815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Offenburger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Offenburger |
| SIGNATURE | OFFENBURGER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Breaking New Ground and the Constraints of State History
Alice L. Baumgartner. South to Freedom
In some ways, Alice L. Baumgartner’s South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War could be mischaracterized as a political history of a well-studied subject: how the spread of slavery and the acquisition of Texas and other lands from Mexico led to intensifying divisions that culminated in the Civil War. After all, the male-centric narrative is dominated by presidents, senators, congressmen, and dignitaries. But doing s…
Fall of the House of Keller
This article narrates the struggle of one cross-border company, Henry Workman Keller’s Compañía del Rancho de San Isidro (CRSI), to reconcile moral and legal ownership of its lands in Baja California after 1911. Decades of Keller’s correspondence and other archival collections in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, together with documents from the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California…
Building a Border History
The full history of the international border between the United States and Mexico, like all regions, is complex and resistant to order. A myriad of historical actors, migrations, themes, and interpretations meander across the border with the Rio Grande east of El Paso; they move with impunity across cartographic lines west to the Pacific. To give shape and structure to this past of infinite interpretations, C.J. Alvarez’s Border Land, Border Wate…
Roadside Americans
Hitchhiking or “thumb tripping”—one idiom among many—provides an intriguing framework for twentieth-century American history. It unites the individualism and freedom of the traveler with the cooperation or good will of the driver. In Reid’s view, “Hitchhiking thrives on both components—one takes to the road according to one’s own ambitions but can reach one’s destination only through the generosity of others” (p. 6). Reid successfully uses this d…
Legal Codes and Talking Trees
Borderlands are complex places, and they have inspired an equally challenging methodology. When done well, as in Katrina Jagodinsky’s Legal Codes and Talking Trees, a borderlands approach as a scholarly strategy reveals something central about a society by way of its fringes. In this case, the author uses six case studies of Indigenous or mixed-heritage women pursuing legal actions in US northern and southern borderlands—geographically distinct y…
The Heartland
Frontier, Capital, and Border
In the late nineteenth century, American investors wanted to perpetuate an established frontier pattern: to find resources beyond the nation’s border, claim ownership, pocket the profits, and clamor for annexation should conflict arise. They faced a dilemma, though. With the United States having reached Pacific shores, what would be the next site for American expansion? Jessica Kim’s Imperial Metropolis shows how a number of connected elites in S…
The American West and the World
Reviewed by: The American West and the World: Transnational and comparative perspectives by Janne Lahti Andrew Offenburger The American West and the World: Transnational and comparative perspectives By Janne Lahti. New York; London: Routledge, 2019. In October 2000 at the Western History Association annual conference, then-president Patricia Limerick spoke on the connections between the American West and global history. Limerick described the dee…
The Other California
Book Review| July 01 2018 The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands. By Verónica Castillo-Muñoz. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. 171 pp. List of illustrations, list of tables and maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $70 (cloth). Andrew Offenburger Andrew Offenburger Miami University Andrew Offenburger is Assistant Prof…
Corazón de Dixie
Response
This article responds to the roundtable on Quentin Tarantino’s Django and suggests additional ways that the film incorporates and alters the Western American past.
When the West Turned South
This article connects the lives of an American schoolteacher and a young Yaqui girl in Sonora during the Mexican Revolution. It uses the “home lands” framework, first articulated by Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken, to show how settlement and resistance operated through family structures and the making of itinerant home places.
A Note of Thanks
The Xhosa Cattle‐Killing Movement in History and Literature
In South Africa’s Eastern Cape frontier zone, a millenarian movement known as the Xhosa Cattle‐Killing (1856–1857) devastated local populations and stunned observers. How could the messages of its prophetess, Nongqawuse, and the exhortations of her uncle, Mhlakaza, lead to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of cattle, to the death of tens of thousands of people, and to the subjugation of the Xhosa? Historians and authors of literary works hav…
Duplicity and Plagiarism in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness
Hailed as first great novel of the new South Africa (Mda Sets Tone 12), Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness (2000) received widespread critical acclaim for intertwining numerous dualisms—modernity/tradition, belief/ disbelief, city/country, youth/elders—to create a vibrant and complex postapartheid novel. The Heart of Redness acknowledges historian Jeff Peires's The Dead Will Arise (1989) as informing the novel's historical events, centered on the X…
Smallpox and Epidemic Threat in Nineteenth-Century Xhosaland
The most significant advance to date in the historiography of the Xhosa Cattle-Killing connects the slaughter of cattle with lungsickness. In The Dead Will Arise, Jeff Peires (1989) established the
Applied Comparisons
Safundi and White Supremacy
The author writes on how George Fredrickson's White Supremacy indirectly influenced the development of Safundi. He then gives a brief biography of Fredrickson and introduces the articles in this special issue
Berry's Boesman & Lena , Rewarding and Punishing
Boesman & Lena demonstrates both the rewards and the punishments of adapting the stage to the screen
Duplicity and Plagiarism in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness
Hailed as first great novel of the new South Africa (Mda Sets Tone 12), Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness (2000) received widespread critical acclaim for intertwining numerous dualisms—modernity/tradition, belief/ disbelief, city/country, youth/elders—to create a vibrant and complex postapartheid novel. The Heart of Redness acknowledges historian Jeff Peires's The Dead Will Arise (1989) as informing the novel's historical events, centered on the X…
When the West Turned South
This article connects the lives of an American schoolteacher and a young Yaqui girl in Sonora during the Mexican Revolution. It uses the “home lands” framework, first articulated by Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken, to show how settlement and resistance operated through family structures and the making of itinerant home places.
The Xhosa Cattle‐Killing Movement in History and Literature
In South Africa’s Eastern Cape frontier zone, a millenarian movement known as the Xhosa Cattle‐Killing (1856–1857) devastated local populations and stunned observers. How could the messages of its prophetess, Nongqawuse, and the exhortations of her uncle, Mhlakaza, lead to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of cattle, to the death of tens of thousands of people, and to the subjugation of the Xhosa? Historians and authors of literary works hav…
Smallpox and Epidemic Threat in Nineteenth-Century Xhosaland
The most significant advance to date in the historiography of the Xhosa Cattle-Killing connects the slaughter of cattle with lungsickness. In The Dead Will Arise, Jeff Peires (1989) established the
Berry's Boesman & Lena , Rewarding and Punishing
Boesman & Lena demonstrates both the rewards and the punishments of adapting the stage to the screen
Safundi and White Supremacy
The author writes on how George Fredrickson's White Supremacy indirectly influenced the development of Safundi. He then gives a brief biography of Fredrickson and introduces the articles in this special issue
Applied Comparisons
Duplicity and Plagiarism in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness
Hailed as first great novel of the new South Africa (Mda Sets Tone 12), Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness (2000) received widespread critical acclaim for intertwining numerous dualisms—modernity/tradition, belief/ disbelief, city/country, youth/elders—to create a vibrant and complex postapartheid novel. The Heart of Redness acknowledges historian Jeff Peires's The Dead Will Arise (1989) as informing the novel's historical events, centered on the X…
Smallpox and Epidemic Threat in Nineteenth-Century Xhosaland
The most significant advance to date in the historiography of the Xhosa Cattle-Killing connects the slaughter of cattle with lungsickness. In The Dead Will Arise, Jeff Peires (1989) established the
The Xhosa Cattle‐Killing Movement in History and Literature
In South Africa’s Eastern Cape frontier zone, a millenarian movement known as the Xhosa Cattle‐Killing (1856–1857) devastated local populations and stunned observers. How could the messages of its prophetess, Nongqawuse, and the exhortations of her uncle, Mhlakaza, lead to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of cattle, to the death of tens of thousands of people, and to the subjugation of the Xhosa? Historians and authors of literary works hav…
A Note of Thanks
When the West Turned South
This article connects the lives of an American schoolteacher and a young Yaqui girl in Sonora during the Mexican Revolution. It uses the “home lands” framework, first articulated by Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken, to show how settlement and resistance operated through family structures and the making of itinerant home places.
Response
This article responds to the roundtable on Quentin Tarantino’s Django and suggests additional ways that the film incorporates and alters the Western American past.
Corazón de Dixie
The Other California
Book Review| July 01 2018 The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands. By Verónica Castillo-Muñoz. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. 171 pp. List of illustrations, list of tables and maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $70 (cloth). Andrew Offenburger Andrew Offenburger Miami University Andrew Offenburger is Assistant Prof…
The Heartland
Frontier, Capital, and Border
In the late nineteenth century, American investors wanted to perpetuate an established frontier pattern: to find resources beyond the nation’s border, claim ownership, pocket the profits, and clamor for annexation should conflict arise. They faced a dilemma, though. With the United States having reached Pacific shores, what would be the next site for American expansion? Jessica Kim’s Imperial Metropolis shows how a number of connected elites in S…
The American West and the World
Reviewed by: The American West and the World: Transnational and comparative perspectives by Janne Lahti Andrew Offenburger The American West and the World: Transnational and comparative perspectives By Janne Lahti. New York; London: Routledge, 2019. In October 2000 at the Western History Association annual conference, then-president Patricia Limerick spoke on the connections between the American West and global history. Limerick described the dee…
Building a Border History
The full history of the international border between the United States and Mexico, like all regions, is complex and resistant to order. A myriad of historical actors, migrations, themes, and interpretations meander across the border with the Rio Grande east of El Paso; they move with impunity across cartographic lines west to the Pacific. To give shape and structure to this past of infinite interpretations, C.J. Alvarez’s Border Land, Border Wate…
Roadside Americans
Hitchhiking or “thumb tripping”—one idiom among many—provides an intriguing framework for twentieth-century American history. It unites the individualism and freedom of the traveler with the cooperation or good will of the driver. In Reid’s view, “Hitchhiking thrives on both components—one takes to the road according to one’s own ambitions but can reach one’s destination only through the generosity of others” (p. 6). Reid successfully uses this d…
Legal Codes and Talking Trees
Borderlands are complex places, and they have inspired an equally challenging methodology. When done well, as in Katrina Jagodinsky’s Legal Codes and Talking Trees, a borderlands approach as a scholarly strategy reveals something central about a society by way of its fringes. In this case, the author uses six case studies of Indigenous or mixed-heritage women pursuing legal actions in US northern and southern borderlands—geographically distinct y…
Fall of the House of Keller
This article narrates the struggle of one cross-border company, Henry Workman Keller’s Compañía del Rancho de San Isidro (CRSI), to reconcile moral and legal ownership of its lands in Baja California after 1911. Decades of Keller’s correspondence and other archival collections in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, together with documents from the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California…
Alice L. Baumgartner. South to Freedom
In some ways, Alice L. Baumgartner’s South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War could be mischaracterized as a political history of a well-studied subject: how the spread of slavery and the acquisition of Texas and other lands from Mexico led to intensifying divisions that culminated in the Civil War. After all, the male-centric narrative is dominated by presidents, senators, congressmen, and dignitaries. But doing s…
Breaking New Ground and the Constraints of State History
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