This comprehensive survey details the dynamic history and current politics, society, economy, and daily life of the U.S.-Mexican border region. Updated and revised, the richly illustrated book highlights key contemporary issues including migration, security and the wall, climate change, trade and economy, and the pandemic of 2020.
This comprehensive survey details the dynamic history and current politics, society, economy, and daily life of the U.S.-Mexican border region. Updated and revised, the richly illustrated book highlights key contemporary issues including migration, security and the wall, climate change, trade and economy, and the pandemic of 2020.
Paul Ganster is professor of history and director of the Institute for Regional Studies of the California at San Diego State University. Kimberly Collins is professor of public administration and executive director of the William and Barbara Leonard Transportation Center at California State University, San Bernardino.
Inhaltsangabe
Note about the Cover Image Illustrations and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction 1 Distinguishing 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 2 Booms and Busts on the Border: Economic Development, 1880s-1920s The First Border Boom, 1880-1910 The Border Economy during the Mexican Revolution Prohibition on the Border Early Free Trade 3 Life on the Border: 1880s-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 the Depression 4 Booms and Busts on the Border: The Great Depression and World War II The Great Depression World War II The Bracero Program 5 Economic Trends since 1950: Legacies of War and a Globalizing Economy 1 The Border Economy Comes of Age Mexican Government Policy and the Border: PRONAF and BIP-the Maquiladoras The U.S. Border Economy 6 The 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 7 Border 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 Transborder Cooperation 9 The Border and National Politics The United States Mexico Migration and the Impact on Local Communities United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Border Leaders Border in the Time of a Pandemic Developing Twenty-First-Century Border Institutions Suggested Readings Index About the Authors
Note about the Cover Image Illustrations and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Acronyms Introduction 1 Distinguishing 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 2 Booms and Busts on the Border: Economic Development, 1880s-1920s The First Border Boom, 1880-1910 The Border Economy during the Mexican Revolution Prohibition on the Border Early Free Trade 3 Life on the Border: 1880s-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 the Depression 4 Booms and Busts on the Border: The Great Depression and World War II The Great Depression World War II The Bracero Program 5 Economic Trends since 1950: Legacies of War and a Globalizing Economy 1 The Border Economy Comes of Age Mexican Government Policy and the Border: PRONAF and BIP-the Maquiladoras The U.S. Border Economy 6 The 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 7 Border 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 Transborder Cooperation 9 The Border and National Politics The United States Mexico Migration and the Impact on Local Communities United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Border Leaders Border in the Time of a Pandemic Developing Twenty-First-Century Border Institutions Suggested Readings Index About the Authors
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