TY - BOOK AU - StJohn,Rachel TI - Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border T2 - America in the World SN - 9780691141541 AV - F786 U1 - 320.120973 23 PY - 2011///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - HISTORY / United States / General KW - bisacsh KW - 1848 KW - Americans KW - Apache people KW - Arizona Railroad KW - First World War KW - Great Depression KW - Mexican Revolution KW - Mexican border KW - Mexican immigrants KW - Mexicans KW - MexicanЁmerican War KW - Mexico KW - New Mexico Railroad KW - North America KW - Rio Grande KW - Sonora Railway KW - U.S. border policy KW - U.S. border KW - U.S. immigration laws KW - U.S. prohibitions KW - U.S.Ѝexico border KW - United States KW - binational communities KW - binational cooperation KW - border communities KW - border control KW - border controls KW - border fences KW - border vice districts KW - borderlands KW - boundary commission KW - boundary line KW - capitalism KW - capitalist economy KW - capitalist revolution KW - cooperative enforcement measures KW - customs KW - deportations KW - desert border KW - diplomatic negotiation KW - filibusters KW - illegal drugs KW - immigration control KW - immigration KW - jurisdictional boundaries KW - law enforcement KW - military authority KW - moral standards KW - morality regulation KW - movement restrictions KW - national sovereignty KW - power imbalance KW - power KW - regulation KW - smuggling KW - sovereign space KW - spatial organization KW - state power KW - tax KW - territorial sovereignty KW - territorial visions KW - transborder battles KW - transborder movement KW - transborder rail line KW - transborder ties KW - transborder trade KW - transnational economy KW - twentieth-century border KW - war years KW - warfare N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter One. A New Map for North America: Defining the Border --; Chapter Two. Holding the Line: Fighting Land Pirates and Apaches on the Border --; Chapter Three. Landscape of Profits: Cultivating Capitalism across the Border --; Chapter Four. The Space Between: Policing the Border --; Chapter Five. Breaking Ties, Building Fences: Making War on the Border --; Chapter Six. Like Night and Day: Regulating Morality with the Border --; Chapter Seven. Insiders /Outsiders: Managing Immigration at the Border --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on the desert border to the west of the Rio Grande, this book explains the origins of the modern border and places the line at the center of a transnational history of expanding capitalism and state power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving across local, regional, and national scales, St. John shows how government officials, Native American raiders, ranchers, railroad builders, miners, investors, immigrants, and smugglers contributed to the rise of state power on the border and developed strategies to navigate the increasingly regulated landscape. Over the border's history, the U.S. and Mexican states gradually developed an expanding array of official laws, ad hoc arrangements, government agents, and physical barriers that did not close the line, but made it a flexible barrier that restricted the movement of some people, goods, and animals without impeding others. By the 1930s, their efforts had created the foundations of the modern border control apparatus. Drawing on extensive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, Line in the Sand weaves together a transnational history of how an undistinguished strip of land became the significant and symbolic space of state power and national definition that we know today UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838639?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400838639 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400838639.jpg ER -