Why Walls Won't Work Repairing the US-Mexico Divide

Name: Why Walls Won't Work Repairing the US-Mexico Divide
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ISBN: 9780199897988

ISBN-10: 0199897980

ISBN-13: 9780199897988

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael Dear

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Today, when one thinks of the border separating the United States from Mexico, what comes to mind is a war 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. But as theacclaimed urbanist and geographer Michael Dear reveals in this fascinating book, it was not always this way. In fact, from the end of the Mexican-American War until the late twentieth century, the border was a very porous and loosely regulated region. In this sweeping account of life within the United States-Mexican border zone, Dear traces the border's long history of cultural interaction, beginning with…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2/20/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.49" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Preface



Monuments, Mexico, and Manifest Destiny



Maps without Borders: Continuity and Connection in Early Times



From Frontier Settlements to Transborder Cities



Law and Order at the Border



Third Nation before the Wall



Third Nation of the Mind



Fortress USA



Mexico: Narco-State or Failed State?



Third Nation Interrupted



Why Walls Won't Work


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index