Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
&ldquo;Using new approaches and demonstrating the results of extensive research into the archives of both Mexico and the United States, this pathbreaking book provides a new perspective on our common frontier legacies as well as surprising borderland stories involving Chinese immigrants and African American colonizers, transnational identities, and borderland &lsquo;body politics.&rsquo; These highly readable original essays comprise a new history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, one that is enhanced by poignant human stories. This seminal volume should stimulate new studies of U.S.-Mexico border relations in the years to come. Editors Samuel Truett and Elliott Young are to be congratulated on their accomplishment.&rdquo;&mdash;Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University