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These ragged edges : histories of violence along the U.S.-Mexico border /

"The U.S.-Mexico border has earned an enduring reputation as a site of violence. During the past twenty years in particular, the drug wars--fueled by the international movement of narcotics and vast sums of money--have burned an abiding image of the border as a place of endemic danger into the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Torget, Andrew J., 1978- (Editor ), Gurza Lavalle, Gerardo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Colección:David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The problem of violence along the U.S.-Mexico border / Andrew J. Torget and Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle
  • Part I. Livestock, Markets, and Guns. Smuggling and violence in the northern borderlands of New Spain, 1810-1821 / Alberto Barrera-Enderle and Andrew J. Torget
  • Trespassers in the land of plenty: Comanche raiding across the U.S.-Mexican border, 1846-1853 / Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez
  • Theft and violence in the Lower Rio Grande borderlands, 1866-1876 / Lance Blyth
  • Part II. State Power in Transition. Cooperative violence on the Rio Grande frontier, 1830-1880 / Miguel Ángel González Quiroga
  • Citizenship, violence, and the Cortina War / Alice Baumgartner
  • Violence, crime, and the limitations of state power in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, 1848-1875 / Timothy Bowman
  • State-construction and industrial development in the transformation of state violence in the Texas-Mexico borderlands during the early Porfiriato / J. Gabriel Martínez-Serna
  • Part III. Violence at the turn of the century. Avenging Tomochic and Santo Tomás: Contested narratives of Santana Pérez's insurgency along the Chihuahua-New Mexico border / Brandon Morgan
  • Por un compatriota: Gregorio Cortez, state-sanctioned violence, and the forging of an unlikely alliance / Sonia Hernández
  • Cycles of lynching: The U.S.-Mexican border and mob violence against persons of Mexican descent in the United States, 1848-1928 / William Carrigan and Clive Webb
  • Border violence in Revolutionary Mexico, 1910-1920 / Alan Knight
  • Part IV. Drugs and Migrants. Narcos and narcs: Violence and the transformation of drug trafficking at the Texas-Mexico border / Santiago Guerra
  • Women, family, violence, and trust: Drugged lives on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1950 to the present / Elaine Carey and José Carlos Cisneros Guzmán
  • Keep them out! Border enforcement and violence since 1986 / Alejandra Díaz de Leon.