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15%OFFAssociate Professor Of History Geraldo L Cadava - Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland - 9780674970892 - V9780674970892
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Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland

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Description for Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 370.
Under constant surveillance and policed by increasingly militarized means, Arizona's border is portrayed in the media as a site of sharp political and ethnic divisions. But this view obscures the region's deeper history. Bringing to light the shared cultural and commercial ties through which businessmen and politicians forged a transnational Sunbelt, Standing on Common Ground recovers the vibrant connections between Tucson, Arizona, and the neighboring Mexican state of Sonora. Geraldo L. Cadava corrects misunderstandings of the borderland's past and calls attention to the many types of exchange, beyond labor migrations, that demonstrate how the United States and Mexico continue to ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674970892
SKU
V9780674970892
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About Associate Professor Of History Geraldo L Cadava
Geraldo L. Cadava is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University.

Reviews for Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland
Thoroughly researched and cleverly organized around iconic Tucson events and people, the book gives illuminating historical background to current strife over racial and migrant issues. Cadava has crafted a compelling story of the whole border region as the various people there experienced it.
(03/01/2014) By bringing Arizona's relationship with Mexico and Mexicans into focus, this groundbreaking and illuminating new book ... Read more

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