Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide by Alvarez, C. J.
Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide by Alvarez, C. J.

Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide

Winner, Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2020 Winner, Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award, Society of...
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Author: C. J. Alvarez
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Language: English
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Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide by Alvarez, C. J.

Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide

CHF 65.17
Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide by Alvarez, C. J.

Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide

CHF 65.17
Author: C. J. Alvarez
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.



Author: C. J. Alvarez
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 03/31/2022
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781477319017

About the Author
Alvarez, C. J.: - C. J. Alvarez is an assistant professor of Mexican American and Latina/o studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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