The U.S.-Mexican Border in the Twentieth Century: A History of Economic and Social Transformation
by Lorey, David E.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-09-01
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Summary
The 2,000-mile-long international boundary between the United States and Mexico gives shape to a unique social, economic, and cultural entity. David Lorey here offers the first comprehensive treatment of the fascinating evolution of the region over the pa
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction: Defining the Region, Objectives, and Approaches | p. 1 |
| Distinguishing Characteristics and Early History: Frontier, Borderlands, Border Region | p. 15 |
| The Colonial Period: Life on a New World Frontier | p. 17 |
| From Frontier to Borderlands | p. 23 |
| Conflict between the United States and Mexico | p. 28 |
| Early Border Phenomena | p. 30 |
| Booms and Busts on the Border: Economic Development, 1880s to 1920s | p. 35 |
| The First Border Boom, 1880 to 1910 | p. 35 |
| The Border Economy during the Mexican Revolution | p. 40 |
| Prohibition on the Border | p. 45 |
| Early Free Trade | p. 49 |
| Life on the Border: Social Change, 1880s to 1930s | p. 53 |
| 1880s to 1910 | p. 53 |
| Causes of the Mexican Revolution | p. 56 |
| The Social Character of the Revolution in the Mexican North | p. 63 |
| The Revolutionary Period on the U.S. Side of the Border | p. 66 |
| Transboundary Population Movements during Revolution, Prohibition, and Depression | p. 69 |
| Booms and Busts on the Border, 1930s and 1940s | p. 77 |
| The Great Depression | p. 78 |
| World War II | p. 82 |
| Economic Trends Since 1950: Legacies of the Wartime Economy | p. 93 |
| The Border Economy Comes of Age | p. 94 |
| Mexican Government Policy and the Border: PRONAF and BIP--the Maquiladoras | p. 103 |
| The Consequences of Rapid Growth in the Border Region: Social and Cultural Change Since the 1940s | p. 117 |
| Population and Migration | p. 118 |
| Urbanization | p. 124 |
| Mexican Americans | p. 134 |
| The Impact of Migration on Sending Communities | p. 137 |
| Cultural Evolutions | p. 139 |
| U.S.-Mexican Relations at the Border: 1890s to 1990s | p. 153 |
| The Elusive Boundary: Water, Environmental Issues, and Drug Trafficking | p. 154 |
| Migration | p. 162 |
| NAFTA in the Border Region | p. 169 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 183 |
| Index | p. 189 |
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