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RECORD NUMBER: 1840 OF 1952Main Title | U.S.-Mexican border in the twentieth century : a history of economic and social transformation / | |||||||||||
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Author | Lorey, David E. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Scholarly Resources, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1999 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 40830081 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0842027564 (paper : alk. paper) 0842027556 (cloth : alk. paper) | |||||||||||
Subjects | Mexican-American Border Region--History--20th century ; United States--Relations--Mexico ; Mexico--Relations--United States ; Frontera Norte, M exico--Condiciones econ omicas--Siglo XX ; Estados Unidos--Relaciones--M exico ; M exico--Relaciones--Estados Unidos | |||||||||||
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Collation | x, 195 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-187) and index. |
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Contents Notes | Defining the region, objectives, and approaches -- Distinguishing characteristics and early history: frontier, borderlands, 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 -- Booms and busts on the border: economic development, 1880s to 1920s ; The first border boom, 1880-1910 ; The border economy during the Mexican Revolution ; Prohibition on the border ; Early free trade -- Life on the border: social change, 1880s to 1930s ; 1880s to 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 Depression -- Booms and busts on the border, 1930s and 1940s ; The Great Depression ; World War II -- Economic trends since 1950: legacies of the wartime economy ; The border economy comes of age ; Mexican government policy and the border: PRONAF and BIP--the Maquiladoras -- The consequences of rapid growth in the border region: social change and cultural change since the 1940s ; Population and migration ; Urbanization ; Mexican Americans. The impact of migration on sending communities. Cultural evolutions. -- U.S.-Mexican relations at the border: 1890s to 1990s ; The elusive boundary: water, environmental issues, and drug trafficking ; Migration ; NAFTA in the border region. |