附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-403) and index.
Part One. The economics of space. 1. Mexico in America -- 2. Borderland -- 3. Priests and presidios. -- 4. Fiefs and filibusters. -- 5. Land of the dispossessed. -- 6. Windfall of the Wild Horse Desert. -- Part Two. Dividing the continent. 7. Corridor to the Pacific. -- 8. Americanizing Mexico. -- 9. "Down to Mexico to serve mankind." -- Part Three: A disparate unity. -- 10. Bounties and barriers: from the palm of God's hand. -- 11. Oriental opium and Mexican marijuana. -- 12. Politics and profits of the "War on Drugs." -- 13. Sin fronteras: toward a borderless world.
摘要:Thomas Torrans' narrative is a sweeping history of the 2000-mile-long borderlands from the time of the early Spanish intrusions in their endless quest for gold to the recent invasions of multi-nationals in their endless quest for cheap labor. It is a fascinating story of the long struggle to establish a boundary as an institution and cultural margin of the two Americas -- an Anglo North and a Latin South.
