When thinking about the border separating the United States from Mexico, what typically comes to mind is an unwelcoming zone with violent, poverty-ridden towns, cities, and maquiladoras on one side and an increasingly militarized network of barriers and surveillance systems on the other. It was not always this way. In fact, from the end of Mexican-American War until the late twentieth century, the border was a very porous and loosely regulated region.
When thinking about the border separating the United States from Mexico, what typically comes to mind is an unwelcoming zone with violent, poverty-ridden towns, cities, and maquiladoras on one side and an increasingly militarized network of barriers and surveillance systems on the other. It was not always this way. In fact, from the end of Mexican-American War until the late twentieth century, the border was a very porous and loosely regulated region.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael Dear is Professor of City and Regional Planning in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California-Berkeley. The author/editor of more than a dozen books, he has been a Guggenheim Fellowship holder, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and Fellow at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy. He has received the highest honors for creativity in research from the Association of American Geographers, and numerous undergraduate teaching and graduate mentorship awards.
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Preface 1. MONUMENTS, MEXICO AND MANIFEST DESTINY Part 1: MAKING THE BORDER 2. MAPS WITHOUT BORDERS: CONTINUITY and CONNECTION IN EARLY TIMES 3. FROM FRONTIER SETTLEMENTS TO TRANSBORDER CITIES 4. LAW AND ORDER AT THE BORDER PART 2: RISE OF A THIRD NATION 5. THIRD NATION BEFORE THE WALL 6. THIRD NATIONS OF THE MIND 7. FORTRESS AMERICA 8. MEXICAN NARCO-STATE PART 3: THIRD NATION ENDURES 9. THIRD NATION INTERRUPTED 10. WHY WALLS WON'T WORK Epilogue Endnotes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
Preface 1. MONUMENTS, MEXICO AND MANIFEST DESTINY Part 1: MAKING THE BORDER 2. MAPS WITHOUT BORDERS: CONTINUITY and CONNECTION IN EARLY TIMES 3. FROM FRONTIER SETTLEMENTS TO TRANSBORDER CITIES 4. LAW AND ORDER AT THE BORDER PART 2: RISE OF A THIRD NATION 5. THIRD NATION BEFORE THE WALL 6. THIRD NATIONS OF THE MIND 7. FORTRESS AMERICA 8. MEXICAN NARCO-STATE PART 3: THIRD NATION ENDURES 9. THIRD NATION INTERRUPTED 10. WHY WALLS WON'T WORK Epilogue Endnotes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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