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Border towns and border crossings : a history of the U.S.-Mexico divide / Roger Bruns.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2019]Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781440863530
  • 1440863539
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Border towns and border crossings.DDC classification:
  • 972/.1 23
LOC classification:
  • F786 .B78 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Creating the line -- Civil war border strategy -- Border unrest -- Boom towns along the border -- Mexico's revolution and violence on the border -- Patrolling the border -- "Operation Wetback" -- Chicano spirit on the border -- Fences, walls, and boundary enforcement -- Smuggling, guns, drugs, and violence -- NAFTA, maquiladoras, and border economics -- Dreamers and the politics of the border -- Cross-border spirit and cooperation.
Summary: "This is a compelling and revealing look at the history of the U.S.-Mexican border as a place and symbol of cross-cultural melding and a source of growing anxiety over immigration and national security"-- Provided by publisher.
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"This is a compelling and revealing look at the history of the U.S.-Mexican border as a place and symbol of cross-cultural melding and a source of growing anxiety over immigration and national security"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Creating the line -- Civil war border strategy -- Border unrest -- Boom towns along the border -- Mexico's revolution and violence on the border -- Patrolling the border -- "Operation Wetback" -- Chicano spirit on the border -- Fences, walls, and boundary enforcement -- Smuggling, guns, drugs, and violence -- NAFTA, maquiladoras, and border economics -- Dreamers and the politics of the border -- Cross-border spirit and cooperation.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 15, 2019).

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