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..., northern Baja’s Chinese represented an economic potential in excess of what the aggregate numbers would suggest. Table 1: Population of Northern Baja California Northern district Mexicali municipio Mexicali town Ensenada municipio Ensenada town 1900 7,583 (a) (a) 7,583 b 1,726...

... Schantz’s “All Night at the Owl” is a particularly notable addition to this volume. Schantz examines Mexicali’s Owl Café and Theatre, a center for vice tourism from the 1910s through the 1940s. The Owl offered Americans a social space where they could enjoy an exotic, albeit stereotypical, version...

... agreements culled from state archives, that this motive can be gleaned. In Baja California, for example, Governor Braulio Maldonado Sa´ ndez exerted in uence to make sure that cotton harvests in Mexicali Valley were accomplished before he authorized oating workers to pass through contracting centers. In sum...

... these records are read alongside local agreements culled from state archives, that this motive can be gleaned. In Baja California, for example, Governor Braulio Maldonado Sa´ ndez exerted in uence to make sure that cotton harvests in Mexicali Valley were accomplished before he authorized oating workers to pass...

... his life over five cases of tequila and Charlie Sam controls the opium trade in El Paso’s Chinatown. Border Patrol is a story told before, but one always fun to hear, especially around campfires in Mexicali. At times the words are inflated, but Perkins eventually emerges as a competent...

... through the recent salinity dispute in the Mexicali Valley. Although designed as a study from both sides of the border, the author’s Mexican section is severely limited by Mexico’s regrettable decision to close the relevant archives. This is not to say that Mexico is neglected, however, since Hundley does...

.... Many of the pictures are the same ones used in Six Faces of Mexico by Russell Ewing, et. al . In fact, one picture showing the loading of cotton bales in the Mexicali district appears in Six Faces of Mexico with a caption denoting the loading of cotton grown in Sinaloa. Though Dunbier’s effort...

... to narrate the often separate histories of Brownsville, Matamoros, the Laredos, El Paso, Ciudad Juárez, the Nogales twins, Calexico and Mexicali, San Diego, Tijuana, et alia. Because they restrict themselves to secondary border literature, though, the authors ultimately fail to relate local themes...

... crosses and re-crosses the border with apparent ease, despite the obvious logistical and archival challenges. This enviable facility allows him to track the Border Barons as they work both sides of the line (San Diego/Tijuana, Sacramento/Mexicali, Washington/Mexico City) to their considerable profit...

..., the real merit of his work lies in his detailed deconstruction of the multifaceted forces on both sides of the border that shaped the roiling agrarian dispute itself. Dwyer draws the battle lines over the massive cotton fields of the Colorado River Land Company outside Mexicali in northern Baja California...

... pastor. 129 NA II, 712.00/5 – 2962, despatch #1482. 130 NA II, 712.00/6 – 562, box 1510. So clear was the state’s message with the Jaramillo assassination that only a few months later, when a high-ranking military officer was dispatched to Mexicali to dissuade Alfonso Garzón, a popular...

... as a smuggler's paradise for cross-border vice, including all sorts of drugs. Viewed in terms of US informal empire, it was comparable to “offshore” sin cities such as Tijuana, Mexicali, and Havana from the 1920s to the 1950s. George H. W. Bush's 1989 invasion to oust former US ally and drug kingpin President...