Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 296
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4422-3110-8 • Hardback • August 2015 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-4422-3111-5 • Paperback • August 2015 • $35.00 • (£27.00)
978-1-4422-3112-2 • eBook • August 2015 • $33.00 • (£25.00)
Paul Ganster is professor of history and director of the Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias at San Diego State University.
David E. Lorey was director of the U.S.–Latin American Relations Program at the Hewlett Foundation from 1997 to 2003.
CONTENTS
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Preface: The U.S.-Mexican Border in Global Context
Introduction: Defining the Region, Objectives, and Approaches
1Distinguishing Characteristics and Early History: Frontier, Borderlands, and Border Region
The Colonial Period: Life on a New World Frontier
From Frontier to Borderlands
Conflict between the United States and Mexico
Early Border Phenomena
2Booms and Busts on the Border: Economic Development, 1880s to 1920s
The First Border Boom, 1880 to 1910
The Border Economy during the Mexican Revolution
Prohibition on the Border
Early Free Trade
3Life on the Border: Social Change, 1880s to 1930s
1880s to 1910
Causes of the Mexican Revolution
The Social Character of the Revolution in the Mexican North
The Revolutionary Period on the U.S. Side of the Border
Transboundary Population Movements during the Revolution, Prohibition, and Depression
4Booms and Busts on the Border: The Great Depression and World War II
The Great Depression
World War II
5Economic Trends since 1950: Legacies of War and a Globalizing Economy
The Border Economy Comes of Age
Mexican Government Policy and the Border: PRONAF and BIP—the Maquiladoras
The U.S. Border Economy
6The Consequences of Rapid Growth in the Border Region: Social and Cultural Change since the 1940s
Population and Migration
Urbanization
Mexican Americans
The Impact of Migration on Sending Communities
Cultural Evolutions
7Border Issues in U.S.-Mexican Relations: Boundary, Environment, Health, and Native Americans
The Elusive Boundary
The Environment under Siege
Public Health Issues
Native Americans and the Border
8. Border Issues in U.S.-Mexican Relations: Drug Trafficking, Security, Migration, NAFTA, and Transborder Cooperation
Drug Trafficking
Security
Migration
Trade and the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Transborder Cooperation
Suggested Readings
Index
About the Authors
This is a most welcome update of a book I have been using in my classes for many years. The book outlines borderland history thoroughly and concisely, followed by a well-informed and insightful account of the present-day challenges confronting border dwellers on both sides of the line. The extensive new materials and well-chosen illustrations add punch and urgency to an already-engaging text.
— Michael Dear, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Ganster and David Lorey present an outstanding survey of the forces, processes, and events that have produced the vibrant transnational economy and society for which the border region is known. This latest edition provides valuable recent data and timely updates on many subjects, including security concerns, migration, drug trafficking, and environmental issues. Because of its comprehensiveness, clarity, statistical tables, and wonderful photographs, this book will prove extremely useful for anyone interested in the borderlands.
— Oscar J. Martinez, University of Arizona
The U.S.-Mexican Border Today is a finely written, comprehensive view into human and environmental conditions in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. The third edition provides students and scholars alike with a broad look at the most pertinent issues affecting how people, and the local flora and fauna, live and interact in a society influenced directly by major global issues—the movement of goods and people, multiculturalism and communication, the environment, and public security and the criminal element.
— Kimberly Collins, California State University, San Bernardino
An excellent synthesis. This book fulfills its purpose well. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Multicultural Review
[This] brief but comprehensive survey emphasizes economic, social, and demographic changes along the U.S.-Mexican border. (Previous Edition Praise)
— CHOICE
An excellent, comprehensive treatment of the recent history of the U.S.-Mexican border area [that] explains the important social, political, and economic developments in the region in a clear and accessible manner. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Linda B. Hall, University of New Mexico
A major interpretation of one of the world's most intriguing areas—the U.S.-Mexico Border, la frontera. To date, the very best single synthesis of the salient themes and issues of the twentieth-century border. (Previous Edition Praise)
— David R. Maciel, California State University
A well-organized and highly readable study of the border as a frontier, an international boundary, and a region. The authors take a complex subject and make it understandable, even for those with little or no familiarity with the theme. The range of topics and the breadth of the time period covered are well conceived. The authors clearly demonstrate the accuracy of their observation that the reality of the border is far more interesting than popular myths and stereotypes suggest. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Don M. Coerver, Texas Christian University
Accessibly written for students and general readers as well as practitioners and researchersRelevant and up-to-date statistical data are provided in clearly presented tables to facilitate discussion and analysis Original photographs and maps enable the reader to better understand the geography, society, and culture of this dynamic regionIncludes up-to-date discussions of key issues in the U.S.-Mexican relationship such as migration, security and violence, trade, the environment and climate change, urbanization, economic development, crossborder conflict and cooperation, Native Americans, and globalization.New featuresThoroughly updated and enhanced to reflect recent scholarship and emerging topicsSignificantly expanded discussions of immigration, the border economy and maquiladoras, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Native Americans, and drug trafficking and border security An added section on climate changeIncludes augmented social, demographic, and economic statistical data New maps and photographsAncillary Materials:PowerPoint slides with maps and photos on border security infrastructure; the New Tijuana's culture, cuisine, and art; and vignettes featuring diverse regions along the border are available through textbooks@rowman.com.
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Lecture Notes. The Lecture Notes provide the tables and figures from the text.