| Border: The U.S.-Mexico Line Contributor(s): Metz, Leon C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0875653642 ISBN-13: 9780875653648 Publisher: Texas Christian University Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico - History | Military - United States - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) |
| Dewey: 972.1 |
| LCCN: 2007043789 |
| Physical Information: 1.41" H x 6.36" W x 8.96" (1.47 lbs) 480 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Arizona - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Cultural Region - Mid-South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fourteen years in the making, this is a chronicle of the nearly two-thousand-mile international line between the United States and Mexico. It is an historical account largely through the eyes and experiences of government agents, politicians, soldiers, revolutionaries, outlaws, Indians, engineers, immigrants, developers, illegal aliens, business people, and wayfarers looking for a job. It is essentially the untold story of lines drawn in water, sand, and blood, of an intrepid, durable people, of a civilization whose ebb and flow of history is as significant as any in the world. Award-winning historian Leon Metz takes the reader from America's early westward expansion to today's awesome border problems of water rights, pollution, immigration, illegal aliens, and the massive effort of two nations attempting to pull together for a common cause. |