... of acknowledging the importance of gender displacement alongside the physical displacement experienced by Mexican Americans across the U.S. Southwest just after the Mexican-American War in our understanding of Borderlands, Chicana/o, and feminist history. Anzaldúa Gloria Borderlands García y Griego Manuel Land...

... the repatriation episode through the larger history of Mexican domestic and foreign policy, this book connects the dots between the aftermath of the Mexican revolution and the relentless political tumult surrounding today’s borderlands immigration issues....

...The fourth chapter sheds new historical insight on a key but little-studied demographic of incarceration in the United States: Mexicanos, including immigrants from Mexico and U.S.-born persons of Mexican descent. It is a story that unfolded across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands but peaked in Los...

... borderlands geography of Blackfoot homelands to preserve their influence, sovereignty, and way of life. By telling the story of the three Blackfoot nations (Siksika, Kainai, and Piikani) and their engagement with colonial change, this book contributes to growing scholarly conversations on Indigenous agency...

... and competing land claims augmented confusion and misunderstanding between the inhabitants of the southern borderlands. Augusta Ga Borders Boundaries Elbert Samuel Indian trade Livestock Red importance in Creek thought Straightness importance in Creek thought Surveys Treaties Trees marked Louisiana...

...This chapter discusses how Spanish authorities' neglect and mismanagement of Texas and the forces unleashed by cotton combined to overwhelm Spain's presence in the Texas borderlands. In 1819, floods devastated the town of San Antonio, destroying homes and killing indiscriminately. The town's...

...This chapter discusses the opening of the Texas borderlands to American settlement. In the early summer of 1821, fourteen Tejanos led by Erasmo Seguín rode eastward out of San Antonio on their way toward the Louisiana town of Natchitoches. Seguín carried with him official approval to throw open...

...This chapter examines how the People's Republic of China set about state-building in the Tibetan borderlands by relying on local collaboration. In the early 1950s, Beijing sought to perpetuate its rule in Tibet by giving Tibetans a loose rein. PRC governance of Tibet formed an imperial structure...

...This chapter examines how Sino-Nepali border crossings exposed the weakness of the People's Republic of China in the Tibetan borderlands, in part by triggering unpredictable responses from local authorities distant from the capital. It presents the stories of the Sino-Nepali border crossers...

... violence in the region on the eve of Mexico’s independence. Arredondo José Joaquín de Góngora Ignacio horses demand for livestock industry Lozoya Cornelio Mexican War for Independence northern borderlands of New Spain smuggling San Antonio Texas theft Coahuila economies mining New Spain Nuevo...

...Lance Blyth focuses on how violence played out on the ground among cattle rustlers on both sides of the US-Mexico border between 1866 and 1876. Blyth suggests that borderland violence became more pervasive after 1848 because the creation of the new boundary between the United States and Mexico...

... Violence US-Mexico border Borderlands United States Mexico Texas Cortina War Juan Cortina Figure 5.1 ​“‘Proclama’ del ciudadano Nepomuceno Cortinas!,” 1859. Courtesy Yale University Library. At the close of the Independence Day celebrations in Matamoros, musicians shouldered their instruments...

... Peterson del Mar David U S Canada border Ord Edward O C Ord Order Contrarresguardo Aduanal Customs Police Violence US-Mexico border Borderlands United States Mexico Texas Comisión Pesquisidora Robb Commission Octaviano Zapata Figure 6.1 ​“Mexican side, pontoon bridge over Rio Grande River...

... public lighting Violence US-Mexico border Borderlands United States Mexico Nuevo León Porfirio Diaz Bernardo Reyes Figure 7.1 ​“Corporación del contrarresguardo para los estados de N. León y Tamaulipas,” in Fondo Sandoval-Lagrange, Biblioteca de Colecciones Especiales Miguel de Cervantes...

... Cavalry Violence US-Mexico border Borderlands United States Mexico Mexican Revolution Pancho Villa Plan de San Diego Figure 11.1 ​Clifford K. Berryman cartoon of an irate Uncle Sam pursuing Pancho Villa, who has just raided and torched Columbus, New Mexico; Villa is—very implausibly—shown...

... Osorno Diego women drug traffickers Violence US-Mexico Border Borderlands United States Mexico Texas Drugs Smuggling Rio Grande Valley Figure 12.1 ​South Texas drug seizure by Border Patrol, aerial view, September 26, 2013. Photograph by Donna Burton. It was December 31, 2003 in the rural...

... Roberto Dunn Timothy Ronin vigilantism Yoxall Peter Humane Borders No More Deaths Violence US-Mexico Border Borderlands United States Mexico Human trafficking Migrants US Immigration Reform and Control Act Guatemala Figure 14.1 ​The picture shows the author conducting an interview...

... dynamics in the borderlands of early America from its earlier Indigenous history through the era of the early republic. American Fur Company bateaux Michilimackinac mud Oak Openings Anishinaabeg Chicago River Des Plaines River flooding geographic knowledge Gulf of St Lawrence Gulf of Mexico...

... enfranchised thanks to the benevolence of the United States political system. Instead, this work shows how Indigenous peoples of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands were enfranchised in a variety of ways during the Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. territorial periods, always while seeking to retain community sovereignty...

...Throughout the eighteenth century, independent Indigenous people from the borderlands of the Philippines visited the centers of Spanish colonial rule in the archipelago. Their travels are the counternarratives to one-dimensional stories of Spanish conquest of, and Indigenous resistance in, interior...