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"In this sweeping account of life within the United States-Mexican border zone, Michael Dear, eminent scholar and co-founder of the "L.A. School" of urban theory, traces the border's long history of cultural interaction, beginning with the numerous Mesoamerican tribes of the 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.In this sweeping account of life within the United States-Mexican border zone, acclaimed urbanist and geographer Michael Dear traces the border's long history of cultural interaction, from exchanges between the region's numerous Mesoamerican tribes onwards. Once Mexican and American settlers met at the Rio Grande and the southwest in the nineteenth century, new forms of interaction evolved. But as Dear warns in his bracing study, this vibrant zone of cultural and social amalgamation is indanger of fading away because of highly restrictive American policies and the violence along Mexico's side of the border. As he explains through analyses of the U.S. border security complex and the emerging Mexican narco-state, the very existence of the "third nation" occupied by both Americans andMexicans is under serious threat. But through a series of evocative portraits of contemporary border communities, he shows that the potential for revitalizing this in-between nation still remains. Combining a broad historical perspective and a commanding overview of present-day problems, Why Walls Won't Work represents a major intellectual foray into one of the most hotly contested political issues of our era" --

International relations. Foreign policy --- USA: South --- Mexico: North --- Boundaries. --- Mexican-American Border Region --- United States --- Mexico --- Mexico. --- North America --- United States. --- History. --- Borderlands

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"Borderlands: they stretch across national boundaries; they encompass many shared interests, relationships, and histories; they create a unique space that extends beyond the international boundary. They extend north and south of what we think of as the actual "border," encompassing even the urban areas of San Antonio, Texas, and Monterrey, Nueva León, Mexico, affirming shared identities and a sense of belonging far away from the geographical boundary. In Bridging Cultures: Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, editors Harriett Romo and William Dupont focus specifically on the lower reaches of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo as it exits the mountains and meanders across a coastal plain. Bringing together perspectives of architects, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, educators, political scientists, geographers, and creative writers who span and encompass the border, its four sections explore the historical and cultural background of the region; the built environment of the transnational border region and how border towns came to look as they do; shared systems of ideas, beliefs, values, knowledge, norms of behavior, and customs-the way of life we think of as Borderlands culture; and how border security, trade and militarization, and media depictions impact the inhabitants of the Borderlands. In this edited volume, Romo and Dupont present the complexity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands culture and historical heritage, exploring the tangible and intangible aspects of border culture, the meaning and legacy of the Borderlands, its influence on relationships and connections, and importantly, how to manage change in a region evolving dramatically over the past five centuries and into the future"--

Mexican Americans --- Border security --- Architecture and transnationalism --- Group identity --- Cultural property --- Cultural fusion --- Mexicans --- Ethnic identity. --- Cultural assimilation --- Mexico, North --- Texas --- Foreign relations

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"Study of the main territorial occupation and population trends of the vast region of northern Mexico. Studies commercial routes, mining development, indigenous resistance, and infiltration of North American capitalist enterprises to determine population policies between the 18th- and mid-20th centuries"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

History of Mexico --- anno 1800-1999 --- Chihuahua --- Land settlement --- History. --- Mexico, North --- Resettlement --- Settlement of land --- Colonies --- Land use, Rural --- Human settlements --- Mexico, Northern --- Norte (Mexico) --- North Mexico --- Northern Mexico --- Agriculture, agribusiness & food production industries

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"Northern Mexico is part of the larger Southwest and an under-published area of archaeology/anthropology, generally referred to as borderlands. This volume focuses on the use of historical texts, oral histories, and ethnographic observation as data sources used in archaeological interpretation, in addition to material remains. The manuscript was organized along geographical lines-Puebloan World, Sierra Madre, and Sonoran Desert-to emphasize the differences between archaeologists in their use of data and interpretation of results. There are two principle themes in the volume: "how far back do identities persist; and who was connected to who?""--

Ethnologie --- Archeologie --- Indiens d'Amerique --- Ethnology --- Archaeology --- Indians of North America --- Indians of Mexico --- Methodologie. --- Antiquites. --- Methodology. --- Antiquities. --- North Mexico. --- North America --- New Southwest. --- États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) --- Southwest, New --- Mexico, North --- Mexican-American Border Region

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Este libro estudia la manipulación de las situaciones reales o latentes de guerra en la Hispanoamérica colonial. La irrupción de los apaches entre 1748 y 1790 en Nueva Vizcaya ocurrió en medio de reformas que intentaban fortalecer el poder real en los territorios de ultramar y determinaban una creciente injerencia de la metrópolis en los asuntos locales. Esta iniciativa amenazaba con socavar los intereses personales y corporativos de los poderosos de la provincia, quienes a través de la exaltación del peligro representado en el enemigo apache y de la promoción de la idea de la frontera de guerra, intentaron conservar privilegios, lograr beneficios y mantener la relativa autonomía de la que habían gozado desde los primeros años del poblamiento de la provincia. La autora cuestiona algunas premisas fuertemente arraigadas en la historiografía y construye una nueva mirada sobre las causas de la guerra en el Septentrión. Asimismo, se analiza la responsabilidad de los apaches en el estado de violencia de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII y pone el acento de las explicaciones en las propias contradicciones de la sociedad neovizcaína y los intereses que la atravesaban.

Apache Indians --- Apache Indians. --- Apaches --- HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico. --- Wars. --- Guerras. --- History --- Wars --- Mexico --- North Mexico. --- Nueva Vizcaya (Mexico) --- Nueva Vizcaya (New Spain) --- Mexico, North --- Historia. --- Historia --- Diné Indians (Apache) --- Athapascan Indians --- Indians of North America --- Nueva Vizcaya, Mexico --- New Biscay (New Spain) --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- Mexico, Northern --- Norte (Mexico) --- North Mexico --- Northern Mexico --- History of the Americas --- Mexico, North.