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Border Land, Border Water - A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide (Hardcover)
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Border Land, Border Water - A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide (Hardcover)
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Winner, Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture
Forum, 2020 Winner, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, Society
of Architectural Historians, 2021 From the boundary surveys
of the 1850s to the ever-expanding fences and highway networks of
the twenty-first century, Border Land, Border Water examines the
history of the construction projects that have shaped the region
where the United States and Mexico meet. Tracing the accretion of
ports of entry, boundary markers, transportation networks, fences
and barriers, surveillance infrastructure, and dams and other river
engineering projects, C. J. Alvarez advances a broad chronological
narrative that captures the full life cycle of border building. He
explains how initial groundbreaking in the nineteenth century
transitioned to unbridled faith in the capacity to control the
movement of people, goods, and water through the use of physical
structures. By the 1960s, however, the built environment of the
border began to display increasingly obvious systemic flaws. More
often than not, Alvarez shows, federal agencies in both countries
responded with more construction—“compensatory building”
designed to mitigate unsustainable policies relating to
immigration, black markets, and the natural world. Border Land,
Border Water reframes our understanding of how the border has come
to look and function as it does and is essential to current debates
about the future of the US-Mexico divide.
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