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This comprehensive survey systematically explores the dynamic
historic and contemporary interface between Mexico and the United
States along the shared 1,954-mile international land boundary. Now
fully updated and revised, the book provides an overview of the
history of the region and traces the economic cycles and social
movements from the 1880s through the second decade of the
twenty-first century. The border region shares characteristics of
both nations while maintaining an internal social and economic
coherence that transcends its divisive international boundary. The
authors conclude with an in-depth analysis of key contemporary
issues. These include industrial development and manufacturing,
bilateral trade, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, rapid
urbanization, border culture, population and migration issues,
environmental crisis and climate change, Native Americans,
cooperation and conflict at the border, drug trafficking and
violence, the border wall and security, populist national leaders
and the border, and the Covid-19 pandemic at the border. They also
place the border in its global context, examining it as a region
caught between the developed and developing world and highlighting
the continued importance of borders in a rapidly globalizing world.
Richly illustrated with photographs, maps, charts, and up-to-date
statistical tables, this book is an invaluable resource for all
those interested in borderlands and U.S.-Mexican relations.
This comprehensive survey systematically explores the dynamic
historic and contemporary interface between Mexico and the United
States along the shared 1,954-mile international land boundary. Now
fully updated and revised, the book provides an overview of the
history of the region and traces the economic cycles and social
movements from the 1880s through the second decade of the
twenty-first century. The border region shares characteristics of
both nations while maintaining an internal social and economic
coherence that transcends its divisive international boundary. The
authors conclude with an in-depth analysis of key contemporary
issues. These include industrial development and manufacturing,
bilateral trade, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, rapid
urbanization, border culture, population and migration issues,
environmental crisis and climate change, Native Americans,
cooperation and conflict at the border, drug trafficking and
violence, the border wall and security, populist national leaders
and the border, and the Covid-19 pandemic at the border. They also
place the border in its global context, examining it as a region
caught between the developed and developing world and highlighting
the continued importance of borders in a rapidly globalizing world.
Richly illustrated with photographs, maps, charts, and up-to-date
statistical tables, this book is an invaluable resource for all
those interested in borderlands and U.S.-Mexican relations.
They were small, simple choices. Seemingly insignificant yes-or-no
decisions. Each one leading her one small step further from where
she was supposed to be, from where she truly wanted to be. Step by
simple step. Piled together, the choices were one huge mountain of
chaos and noise. But one at a time, who could tell any difference
from the moment just before she made the choice, to the quiet
moment just after? Simple choices.
"There's a way of life that looks harmless enough; look again-it
leads straight to hell." - Proverbs 14:12
"In Kimberly Collins' gripping debut novel, Simple Choices, the
lives of two best friends, Darlene and Mickey, become irrevocably
intertwined as they try to cope with a world of grim horizons in
the hollows of southern West Virginia. Their descent into a world
of partying, drugs, sex, and crime-centered on Ray, a man and
manipulator they both love, and his drug-dealing pizza place-will
keep you on the edge of your seat. Most shocking of all: the
stunning act that brings this bad trip to its desperate conclusion
really happened." - Dean King, nationally bestselling author of
Skeletons on the Zahara and The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The
True Story"
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