...H. I. P. With the First City Troop on the Mexican border, being the diary of a trooper . By Brooke George 3D . ( Philadelphia : The John C. Winston Co. , 1917 . Pp. 166 . Illustrated .) Watching and waiting on the border . By Batchelder Roger . With an introduction...

...James V. Mestaz The heart of the book is chapter 3, in which Alvarez demonstrates yet another shift, this time to border infrastructure that could police people and facilitate commerce. The chapter shows its debt to foundational scholars of hydraulic infrastructure like Donald Worster...

...Mee-Ae Kim Imaginary Lines: Border Enforcement and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration, 1882 – 1930 . By Ettinger Patrick W. . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2009 . Photographs. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi, 244 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Copyright 2011...

...F. Arturo Rosales Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol . By Hernández Kelly Lytle . American Crossroads. Berkeley : University of California Press , 2010 . Photographs. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv, 311 pp. Paper . $21.95 . Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright...

... of this issue. Border Dilemmas by Anthony Mora successfully adds to the clarification. The thesis of this engaging book is that changing social and economic conditions alter identity imaging significantly from the perspectives of both outsiders and insiders. Using numerous and varied sources, the author...

... definition of border or borderlands, which would have gone a long way toward illuminating how all of the essays fit into this volume and how they work together. In short, the editor’s goals remain somewhat of a mystery. Still, the scholarship in On the Border is so fresh, the writing so clear...

...Glen David Kuecker The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848–1910 . By Mora-Torres Juan . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2001 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 346 pp. Cloth , $50.00 . Paper , $23.95...

...Norman Caulfield Forging the Tortilla Curtain: Cultural Drift and Change along the United States–Mexico Border from the Spanish Era to the Present . By Torrans Thomas . Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press , 2000 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography...

...Paul J. Vanderwood Catarino Gaza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border . By Young Elliott . American Encounters/Global Interactions . Durham : Duke University Press , 2004 . Photographs. llustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv , 407 pp. Paper , $23.95...

...Alberto Rodriguez Border Contraband is a great addition to the history of the US-Mexican borderlands, giving both countries insight into the making of the border. Díaz has set the international research bar high, and as a result scholars and students will greatly benefit from such research...

... health and transnational smuggling. Like the borderlands, collaborative scholarship (particularly within the humanities) can result in a muddled effort with dissonant voices. At the Border of Empires , in contrast, largely succeeds in precisely identifying the power of the local to shape the national...

...Tim Bowman Postcards from the Sonora Border: Visualizing Place through a Popular Lens, 1900s–1950s . By Arreola Daniel D. . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2017 . Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvii, 271 pp. Cloth , $40.00 . Copyright ©...

...Kif Augustine-Adams The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917–1954 . By Kang S. Deborah . New York : Oxford University Press , 2017 . Photographs. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 282 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...

..., the First Seminole War demonstrated at home and abroad that the United States was determined to assert exclusive rule over its borders as its citizens defined them. A few years later, the Monroe Doctrine extended this philosophy to the hemisphere. People in the early United States resented the presence...

...Keila Grinberg Abstract As the Atlantic slave trade came to an end in Brazil in the 1850s, a new form of trafficking began across the borders of Brazil and its neighboring countries. Free persons—mainly women and children living in small communities in Uruguay and Argentina—were kidnapped...

...Paul Hart The Great Call-Up: The Guard, the Border, and the Mexican Revolution . By Harris Charles H. III and Sadler Louis R. . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2015 . Map. Figures. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 559 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright © 2016...

...Elliott Young The U.S.-Mexican Border in the Twentieth Century: A History of Economic and Social Transformation . By Lorey David E. . Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources , 1999 . Photographs. Map. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 195 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Paper...

... States may question the decision not to interrogate the “heavily biased” Texas newspapers or the unabashedly proslavery Eagle Pass; or Life on the Border on which the book frequently draws (p. 135). But these cavils should not detract from Nichols's argument that the meaning of the US-Mexican border...

...David J. Weber Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States . By Durand Jorge and Massey Douglas S. . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1995 . Illustrations. Map. Tables. Index . xvi , 216 pp. Cloth , $50.00 . Paper , $24.95...

...Juan Javier Pescador Answered Prayers: Miracles and Milagros Along the Border . By Oktavec Eileen . Tuscon : University of Arizona Press , 1995 . Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index, xxi, 249 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . Paper , $14.95 . Copyright 1997 by Duke University Press...