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| Border: The U.S.-Mexico Line | 
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Sales Rank: 758365
Category: Book
Author: Leon C. Metz
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Studio: Texas Christian University Press
Manufacturer: Texas Christian University Press
Label: Texas Christian University Press
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 467
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.4
ISBN: 0875653642
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.1
EAN: 9780875653648
ASIN: 0875653642
Publication Date: March 2008
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Product Description
Fourteen years in the making, this is a chronicle of the nearly two-thousand-mile international line between the United States and Mexico. It is an historical account largely through the eyes and experiences of government agents, politicians, soldiers, revolutionaries, outlaws, Indians, engineers, immigrants, developers, illegal aliens, business people, and wayfarers looking for a job. It is essentially the untold story of lines drawn in water, sand, and blood, of an intrepid, durable people, of a civilization whose ebb and flow of history is as significant as any in the world.Award-winning historian Leon Metz takes the reader from America's early westward expansion to today's awesome border problems of water rights, pollution, immigration, illegal aliens, and the massive effort of two nations attempting to pull together for a common cause.
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 The Border? Where? August 25, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Where is that border anyway? "The Rio Grande had miles of tortuous curves filled with semi-tropical thickets choked with vines and cactus." (p. 149 The border was nothing but trouble. It's hostile. The border was established despite horrible difficulty. The center of the problem wasn't just the terrain but continual wars from the Mexican-American to the Civil War to wars with Native Americans (Geronomo!) then the war with Spain and the Mexican Revolution. It was horrible difficulty. The book presents all of it in detail. It is scholarly. It is complete. It is a masterpiece.
 A fascinating history of the US/Mexico border September 20, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a fascinating review of the history of the US/Mexico border. While Metz has a very clear political view, the facts show a US government steeped in bureaucracy and political expediency.The book reads like a text book and is a bit dry. However, I recommend that you take the time to read passages twice to thoroughly undertand them. Its worth your time. The sections on the Colorado River and Rio Grande are particularly revealing and disturbing in their long term implications.
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