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This comprehensive survey systematically explores the dynamic historic and contemporary interface between Mexico and the United States along the shared 1,954-mile international land boundary. Now fully updated and revised, the book provides an overview of the history of the region and traces the economic cycles and social movements from the 1880s through the second decade of the twenty-first century. The border region shares characteristics of both nations while maintaining an internal social and economic coherence that transcends its divisive international boundary. The authors conclude with an in-depth analysis of key contemporary issues. These include industrial development and manufacturing, bilateral trade, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, rapid urbanization, border culture, population and migration issues, environmental crisis and climate change, Native Americans, cooperation and conflict at the border, drug trafficking and violence, the border wall and security, populist national leaders and the border, and the Covid-19 pandemic at the border. They also place the border in its global context, examining it as a region caught between the developed and developing world and highlighting the continued importance of borders in a rapidly globalizing world. Richly illustrated with photographs, maps, charts, and up-to-date statistical tables, this book is an invaluable resource for all those interested in borderlands and U.S.-Mexican relations.

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ISBN-13:	9781538131817
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/10/2021
Series:	Latin American Silhouettes
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	364
Sales rank:	274,150
File size:	17 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Paul Ganster is professor of history and director of the Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias 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.

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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

Editorial Reviews

Simply the indispensable one-volume introduction to the U.S.-Mexico border region and must-reading for students and scholars alike. All the essential themes of borderlands policy and scholarship are covered: trade, urbanization, immigration, natural resources and environmental concerns, demographic and cultural hybridity, and the complexities of binational diplomacy in a region where survival and prosperity are fundamentally intertwined and interdependent. Crisply written and scrupulously documented, the book conveys a sophisticated understanding of the challenges and opportunities that attend to building binational engagement advancing the border region’s development, and the vital importance to both countries of doing so.

Stephen Mumme

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

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.

'scar J. Martinez

A site of important developments and debates, the U.S.-Mexico border has drawn great interest in recent years. All interested readers definitely should start with this clear and informative introduction. I have taught with it for many years, and I appreciate now having this up-to-date edition that puts recent controversies into the big historical, social, and cultural picture.

Josiah Heyman

This fourth edition of The U.S.-Mexican Border Today by Ganster and Collins offers a compelling, readable account of both contemporary and historical issues related to the southwest border. Importantly, the authors' exploration of historical issues aligns with the latest scholarship in the field. After a quick overview of the North American Southwest in chapter 1, they summarize issues related to industrialism and the border at the turn of the 20th century and the ramifications of so-called progressive social changes prior to the Great Depression in chapters 2–4. Ganster and Collins hit a nice stride in chapters 5 and 6, grounding the region's globalization in mid-20th-century issues, which sets the stage for thorough discussions of contemporary issues ranging from public health, the environment, Natives' concerns, and border security to national politics. Perhaps most significantly, the authors examine the border from both sides, integrating Mexican and American perspectives on the region's history and its current problems. This volumestands as a rare transnational analysis of the border that takes historical issues up to the present day, providing a readable and engaging analysis that is accessible to students. Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.

Choice Reviews

The U. S.-Mexican Border Today is without peer among books about this border. It stands unsurpassed in its comprehensive assessment of social, economic, political, and environmental conditions that have shaped this region in the past and in the present. For two decades, I have depended on this work to inform my students and to contextualize my own border research. This new fourth edition is the most engaging and insightful volume yet.

Daniel D. Arreola

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

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

This fourth edition of The U.S.-Mexican Border Today by Ganster and Collins offers a compelling, readable account of both contemporary and historical issues related to the southwest border. Importantly, the authors' exploration of historical issues aligns with the latest scholarship in the field. After a quick overview of the North American Southwest in chapter 1, they summarize issues related to industrialism and the border at the turn of the 20th century and the ramifications of so-called progressive social changes prior to the Great Depression in chapters 2–4. Ganster and Collins hit a nice stride in chapters 5 and 6, grounding the region's globalization in mid-20th-century issues, which sets the stage for thorough discussions of contemporary issues ranging from public health, the environment, Natives' concerns, and border security to national politics. Perhaps most significantly, the authors examine the border from both sides, integrating Mexican and American perspectives on the region's history and its current problems. This volume stands as a rare transnational analysis of the border that takes historical issues up to the present day, providing a readable and engaging analysis that is accessible to students. Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.

Choice

A site of important developments and debates, the U.S.-Mexico border has drawn great interest in recent years. All interested readers definitely should start with this clear and informative introduction. I have taught with it for many years, and I appreciate now having this up-to-date edition that puts recent controversies into the big historical, social, and cultural picture.
Simply the indispensable one-volume introduction to the U.S.-Mexico border region and must-reading for students and scholars alike. All the essential themes of borderlands policy and scholarship are covered: trade, urbanization, immigration, natural resources and environmental concerns, demographic and cultural hybridity, and the complexities of binational diplomacy in a region where survival and prosperity are fundamentally intertwined and interdependent. Crisply written and scrupulously documented, the book conveys a sophisticated understanding of the challenges and opportunities that attend to building binational engagement advancing the border region's development, and the vital importance to both countries of doing so.
The U. S.-Mexican Border Today is without peer among books about this border. It stands unsurpassed in its comprehensive assessment of social, economic, political, and environmental conditions that have shaped this region in the past and in the present. For two decades, I have depended on this work to inform my students and to contextualize my own border research. This new fourth edition is the most engaging and insightful volume yet.
This fourth edition of The U.S.-Mexican Border Today by Ganster and Collins offers a compelling, readable account of both contemporary and historical issues related to the southwest border. Importantly, the authors' exploration of historical issues aligns with the latest scholarship in the field. After a quick overview of the North American Southwest in chapter 1, they summarize issues related to industrialism and the border at the turn of the 20th century and the ramifications of so-called progressive social changes prior to the Great Depression in chapters 2-4. Ganster and Collins hit a nice stride in chapters 5 and 6, grounding the region's globalization in mid-20th-century issues, which sets the stage for thorough discussions of contemporary issues ranging from public health, the environment, Natives' concerns, and border security to national politics. Perhaps most significantly, the authors examine the border from both sides, integrating Mexican and American perspectives on the region's history and its current problems. This volume stands as a rare transnational analysis of the border that takes historical issues up to the present day, providing a readable and engaging analysis that is accessible to students. Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals.

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