LEADER 03436nam 2200553 450 001 9910811787003321 005 20191029100815.0 010 $a1-4773-1903-4 010 $a1-4773-1902-6 024 7 $a10.7560/319000 035 $a(CKB)4100000009184495 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5890989 035 $a(DE-B1597)588139 035 $a(OCoLC)1269268444 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477319024 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009184495 100 $a20191029d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBorder land, border water $ea history of construction on the US-Mexico divide /$fC. J. Alvarez 210 1$aAustin, Texas :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (301 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 $a1-4773-1900-X 311 $a1-4773-1901-8 327 $aThe border environment in the nineteenth century -- The border and the Mexican revolution -- Police and waterworks on the border : aspirations to control through building -- Police and waterworks on the border : systemic flaws -- Building the border of today -- Epilogue. 330 $aFrom 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. 606 $aBuilding$zMexican-American Border Region 606 $aPublic works$xPolitical aspects$zMexican-American Border Region$xHistory 606 $aWaterworks$zMexican-American Border Region$xHistory 606 $aHISTORY / General$2bisacsh 607 $aMexican-American Border Region$xHistory 610 $aUS Mexico Border, border history, infrastructure, surveillance infrastructure, border studies, architectural history, engineering, border police, built environment. 615 0$aBuilding 615 0$aPublic works$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aWaterworks$xHistory. 615 7$aHISTORY / General. 676 $a972.1 700 $aAlvarez$b C. J.$01609194 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811787003321 996 $aBorder land, border water$93936319 997 $aUNINA