The U.S.-Mexican border into the twenty-first century /
Ganster, Paul.
Lorey, David E.
Lorey, David E.U.S.-Mexican border in the twentieth century.
Lanham ; Plymouth : Rowman & Littlefield,
c2008.
Rev. ed. of: The U.S.-Mexican border in the twentieth century / David E. Lorey. 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215) and index.
Preface. The U.S.-Mexican border in global context -- Introduction. Defining the region, objectives, and approaches -- 1. Distinguishing characteristics and early history : frontier, borderlands, and 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 -- 2. Booms and busts on the border : economic development, 1880s to 1920s -- The first border boom, 1880 to 1910 -- The border economy during the Mexican Revolution -- Early free trade -- 3. Life of the border : social change, 1880s to 1930s -- 1880s to 1930s -- 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 Revolution, Prohibition, and Depression -- 4. Booms and busts on the border : the Great Depression and World War II -- The Great Depression -- World War II -- 5. Economic trends since 1950 : legacies of war and a globalizing economy -- The border economy comes of age -- Mexican government policy and the border : PRONAF and BIP, the Maquiladoras -- The U.S. border economy -- 6. The consequences of rapid growth in the border region : social and cultural change since the 1940s -- Population and migration -- Urbanization -- Mexican Americans -- The impact of migration on sending communities -- Cultural evolutions -- 7. Border issues in U.S.-Mexican relations -- The elusive boundary -- The environment under siege -- Public health issues -- Drug trafficking and border security -- Trade and the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the border region -- Native Americans and the border -- Transborder cooperation.