Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (The Lamar Series in Western History)

Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest StudiesIn the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Mexicans and Americans joined together to transform the U.S.–Mexico borderlands into a crossroads of modern economic development. This book reveals the forgotten story of their ambitious dreams and their ultimate failure to control this fugitive terrain.
Focusing on a mining region that spilled across the Arizona–Sonora border, this book shows how entrepreneurs, corporations, and statesmen tried to domesticate nature and society within a transnational context. Efforts to tame a “wild” frontier were stymied by labor struggles, social conflict, and revolution. Fugitive Landscapes explores the making and unmaking of the U.S.–Mexico border, telling how ordinary people resisted the domination of empires, nations, and corporations to shape transnational history on their own terms.  By moving beyond traditional national narratives, it offers new lessons for our own border-crossing age.

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• War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (The Lamar Series in Western History)
• Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (American Crossroads)
• Are We Not Foreigners Here?: Indigenous Nationalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
• Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
• A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
• Freedom's Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction
• Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
• Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848–1912
• Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past