These ragged edges : histories of violence along the U.S.-Mexico border / edited by Andrew J. Torget, Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Torget, Andrew J., 1978- editor.

Gurza Lavalle, Gerardo, editor.

Series:

David J. Weber series in the New Borderlands history.

North Carolina scholarship online.

The David J. Weber series in the New Borderlands history

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Mexican-American Border Region--History.

Violence.

Mexican-American Border Region--History.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2024.

Summary:

Through multiple perspectives from both sides of the border, the collected essays in 'These Ragged Edges' argue that rapidly changing conditions along the U.S.-Mexico border through the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries have powerfully shaped the ebb and flow of conflict within the region.

Contents:

Introduction: The Problem of Violence along the U.S.-Mexico Border / Andrew J. Torget and Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle

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

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

Violence at the turn of the century. Avenging Tomochic and Santo Tomás: Contested Narratives of Santana Perez'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

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 Jose Carlos Cisneros Guzmán ; Keep Them Out! Border Enforcement and Violence since 1986 / Alejandra Díaz de Leon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 30, 2023).

Previously issued in print: 2022.

ISBN:

979-88-908590-7-5

1-4696-6838-6

OCLC:

1317325527