Building the Borderlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building the Borderlands write by Casey Walsh. This book was released on 2008-02-19. Building the Borderlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cotton, crucial to the economy of the American South, has also played a vital role in the making of the Mexican north. The Lower Río Bravo (Rio Grande) Valley irrigation zone on the border with Texas in northern Tamaulipas, Mexico, was the centerpiece of the Cárdenas government’s effort to make cotton the basis of the national economy. This irrigation district, built and settled by Mexican Americans repatriated from Texas, was a central feature of Mexico’s effort to control and use the waters of the international river for irrigated agriculture. Drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, Casey Walsh discusses the relations among various groups comprising the “social field” of cotton production in the borderlands. By describing the complex relationships among these groups, Walsh contributes to a clearer understanding of capitalism and the state, of transnational economic forces, of agricultural and water issues in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, and of the environmental impacts of economic development. Building the Borderlands crosses a number of disciplinary, thematic, and regional frontiers, integrating perspectives and literature from the United States and Mexico, from anthropology and history, and from political, economic, and cultural studies. Walsh’s important transnational study will enjoy a wide audience among scholars of Latin American and Western U.S. history, the borderlands, and environmental and agricultural history, as well as anthropologists and others interested in the environment and water rights.
Nation-building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands
Nation-building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nation-building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands write by Graham Smith. This book was released on 1998-09-10. Nation-building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how national and ethnic identities are being reforged in the post-Soviet borderland states.
Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands
Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands write by W. Eugene George. This book was released on 2008-06-24. Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mexican settlers first came to the valley of the Rio Grande to establish their ranchos in the 1750s. Two centuries later the Great River, dammed in an international effort by the U.S. and Mexican governments to provide flood control and a more dependable water supply, inundated twelve settlements that had been built there. Under the waters of the new Falcón Reservoir lay homes, businesses, churches, and cemeteries abandoned by residents on both sides of the river when the floods of 1953 filled the 115,000-acre area two years ahead of schedule. The Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service, and the University of Texas at Austin conducted an initial survey of the communities lost to the Falcón Reservoir, but these studies were never completed or fully reported. When architect W. Eugene George came to the area in the 1960s, he found a way of life waiting to be preserved in words, photographs, and drawings. Two subsequent recessions of the reservoir—in 1983–86 and again in 1996–98—gave George new access to one of the settlements, Guerrero Viejo in Mexico. Unfortunately, the receding lake waters also made the village accessible to looters. George’s work, then, was crucial in documenting the indigenous architecture of these villages, both as it existed prior to the flooding and as it remained before it was despoiled by vandals’ hands. Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands combines George’s original 1975 Texas Historical Commission report with the information he gleaned during the two low-water periods. This handsome, extended photographic essay casts new light on the architecture and lives of the people of the Texas-Mexico borderlands.
Borderwall as Architecture
Borderwall as Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Borderwall as Architecture write by Ronald Rael. This book was released on 2017-04-04. Borderwall as Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Borderwall as public space / Teddy Cruz -- Ronald Rael -- Pilgrims at the wall / Marcello Di Cintio -- Borderwall as architecture / Ronald rael -- Transborderisms / Norma Iglesias-Prieto -- Recuerdos / Ronald Rael -- Why walls don't work / Michael Dear -- Afterwards / Ronald Rael
Asymmetrical Neighbors
Asymmetrical Neighbors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asymmetrical Neighbors write by Enze Han. This book was released on 2019. Asymmetrical Neighbors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is the process of state building a unilateral, national venture, or is it something more collaborative, taking place in the interstices between adjoining countries? To answer this question, Asymmetrical Neighbors takes a comparative look at the state building process along China, Myanmar, and Thailand's common borderland area. It shows that the variations in state building among these neighboring countries are the result of an interactive process that occurs across national boundaries. Departing from existing approaches that look at such processes from the angle of singular, bounded territorial states, the book argues that a more fruitful method is to examine how state and nation building in one country can influence, and be influenced by, the same processes across borders. It argues that the success or failure of one country's state building is a process that extends beyond domestic factors such as war preparation, political institutions, and geographic and demographic variables. Rather, it shows that we should conceptualize state building as an interactive process heavily influenced by a "neighborhood effect." Furthermore, the book moves beyond the academic boundaries that divide arbitrarily China studies and Southeast Asian studies by providing an analysis that ties the state and nation building processes in China with those of Southeast Asia.
