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Recent decades of scholarship dealing with the history of the US-Mexico border have witnessed a blending of viewpoints that previously existed under the rubrics of the Spanish borderlands, Chicano(a) history, Southwestern studies, and border studies. After several generations of "Boltonian"-dominated borderlands scholarship, especially in the discipline of history, a new reconceptualization of the borderlands has chronologically and topically expanded away from Spanish frontier institutions toward a new social history of subaltern groups and their interrelationships from colonial times to the present, including especially the 19th and 20th centuries. This volume represents some of the best of this currently evolving scholarship in ten essays written by younger scholars who participated in a 2002 symposium at Southern Methodist University. An introduction by the editors traces the transition of borderlands scholarship away from more traditional, national-based assumptions during the last several decades. The ten individual essays serve as important case studies of this broader historical conceptualization of the borderlands. This book should be imperative reading for all students and scholars with an interest in history of the Mexico-US border. ^BSumming Up: Essential. Most levels/libraries. L. T. Cummins Austin College
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