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Item Embargo From Borderland to Southern Land: The Changing Landscape of the Sabine River Valley, 1800–1877(2024-08-06) Kisner, Bryson; McDaniel, W. Caleb; Hall, Randal L.Between 1800 and 1877, human-environment relationships underpinned the geopolitical and economic changes to the Sabine River Valley. Respectively, these changes were the bordering of multi-polity borderlands and the transition from a pericapitalist (capital-connected) economy to a more capitalist one. Anglo-American settlers and their nation-states, hoping to make the watershed part of the plantation-based landscape of the U.S. South, altered the river valley to effect these changes. The basin, however, was not entirely transformed. Significant portions of the river valley were resistant to plantation landscapes’ imposition. Instead, these environments preserved both the cultural diversity and the older, non-capitalist human-environment relationships of the former borderland. Eventually, capital found ways to extract wealth from such places. But these portions of the basin remained ecologically, economically, and culturally distinct from plantation-based landscapes. This history of the Sabine River Valley therefore demonstrates how the nineteenth-century expansion of the U.S. South, as a political project that included a fundamentally environmental aspect, both succeeded and failed subsuming new landscapes—and how those landscapes contributed to the creation of a more complicated, more diverse South by preserving spaces for marginalized communities and their cultures to survive. "From Borderland to Southern Land" thereby explores the changes in the landscape of the Sabine River Valley during the first three-fourths of the nineteenth century. It takes an environmental approach to this bioregion’s history and uses that methodology as the basis for a history of a North American borderland. In combining these fields, it explores the histories of various ethnic communities, including regionally distinct Hispanic and Indigenous peoples; of U.S. imperialism and expansion; of capitalism as an environmental as well as an economic and social phenomenon; and of the nature of the U.S. South as a region comprised of manifold landscapes. In doing so, it argues for narratives positioned at the intersection of environmental and borderlands histories.Item The Suburb of Tomorrow: Frank Sharp and the Legacy of Oak Forest(Rice Design Alliance, 2009) Hall, Randal L.