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America in the World, Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S. - Mexico Border
written by Rachel St. John, 1976-, in America in the World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, originally published 2011), 297 page(s)
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary...
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written by Rachel St. John, 1976-, in America in the World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, originally published 2011), 297 page(s)
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Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on t...
Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on a map to a clearly marked and heavily regulated divide between the United States and Mexico. Focusing on the desert border to the west of the Rio Grande, this book explains the origins of the modern border and places the line at the center of a transnational history of expanding capitalism and state power in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving across local, regional, and national scales, St. John shows how government officials, Native American raiders, ranchers, railroad builders, miners, investors, immigrants, and smugglers contributed to the rise of state power on the border and developed strategies to navigate the increasingly regulated landscape. Over the border's history, the U.S. and Mexican states gradually developed an expanding array of official laws, ad hoc arrangements, government agents, and physical barriers that did not close the line, but made it a flexible barrier that restricted the movement of some people, goods, and animals without impeding others. By the 1930s, their efforts had created the foundations of the modern border control apparatus. Drawing on extensive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, Line in the Sand weaves together a transnational history of how an undistinguished strip of land became the significant and symbolic space of state power and national definition that we know today.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Book
Author / Creator
Rachel St. John, 1976-
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Series
America in the World
Topic / Theme
Mexico and the United States Border, Ethnic relations, International relations, Political boundaries, Sociology, Geography, Politics & Policy, History, Mexicans, Americans, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Copyright © 2011 by Princeton University Press
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Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group
(Santa Barbara, CA: University of California, Santa Barbara. Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, 2016),
Source: www.ihc.ucsb.edu
Source: www.ihc.ucsb.edu
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(Santa Barbara, CA: University of California, Santa Barbara. Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, 2016),
Source: www.ihc.ucsb.edu
Source: www.ihc.ucsb.edu
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
General reference website
Date Published / Released
2016
Publisher
University of California, Santa Barbara. Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
Topic / Theme
Border Events and Areas Context, Ethnic groups, Diplomacy, Prehistory to Early Civilizations (Up to 1000 BCE)
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Letter December 22, 1906
in Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office (FO). Records of the Slave Trade and African Departments. Foreign Office: African Department: General Correspondence from 1906 (FO 367), of United Kingdom. National Archives at Kew (London, England - Kew) (December 1906); in Anglo-Congolese Boundary Commission: Requested Arrangement with German Government, 1906, Belgium and Congo. Code 404 Files 58 - 3495. 1906 , 1-1
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in Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office (FO). Records of the Slave Trade and African Departments. Foreign Office: African Department: General Correspondence from 1906 (FO 367), of United Kingdom. National Archives at Kew (London, England - Kew) (December 1906); in Anglo-Congolese Boundary Commission: Requested Arrangement with German Government, 1906, Belgium and Congo. Code 404 Files 58 - 3495. 1906 , 1-1
Date Written / Recorded
December 1906, 1906
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Letter
Topic / Theme
The Congo and its Borders, International relations, Political boundaries, Geography, Politics & Policy, Germans, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives give no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives Image Library, Kew, R...
Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives give no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives Image Library, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.
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Letter August 15, 1906
in Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office (FO). Records of the Slave Trade and African Departments. Foreign Office: African Department: General Correspondence from 1906 (FO 367), of United Kingdom. National Archives at Kew (London, England - Kew) (1906); in Anglo-Congolese Boundary: Copy of Dispatch from Commissioner of Uganda Protectorate on Subject of Disputed Territory in Neighborhood of Katwe Salt Lake, 1906, Belgium and Congo. Code 404 Files 58 - 3495. 1906 , 1-2
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in Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office (FO). Records of the Slave Trade and African Departments. Foreign Office: African Department: General Correspondence from 1906 (FO 367), of United Kingdom. National Archives at Kew (London, England - Kew) (1906); in Anglo-Congolese Boundary: Copy of Dispatch from Commissioner of Uganda Protectorate on Subject of Disputed Territory in Neighborhood of Katwe Salt Lake, 1906, Belgium and Congo. Code 404 Files 58 - 3495. 1906 , 1-2
Date Written / Recorded
1906
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Topic / Theme
The Congo and its Borders, Political boundaries, Geography, Politics & Policy, Congolese, Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750–1914)
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Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives give no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives Image Library, Kew, R...
Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives give no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives Image Library, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.
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Annex of the English Summary Report on the Meeting of the Working Group of Refugee Offices, Held at Rochwaldhaussen Near Lauterbach on 11 Au...
in Records of U.S. Occupation Headquarters, World War II (RG260), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records, The Public Safety Branch: Records Relating to the Fire Service Commission, 1945-49. Display of Flags Thru Check on Transit Travelers in British Zone, Refugee & Expellee Problems Transfer of Populations , 28 page(s)
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in Records of U.S. Occupation Headquarters, World War II (RG260), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records, The Public Safety Branch: Records Relating to the Fire Service Commission, 1945-49. Display of Flags Thru Check on Transit Travelers in British Zone, Refugee & Expellee Problems Transfer of Populations , 28 page(s)
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Topic / Theme
EU and its Borders, Internal and External, Germany and its Borders, Negotiation in government, Crossing borders, Refugees, Germany Divided into Occupation Zones, June 5, 1945, Law, Politics & Policy, British, Americans, Germans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Letter October 23, 1924 - 1
written by Irish Boundary Commission, in Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies (HO). General registers, registered papers, warrant and entry books and correspondence; and records of General and E Departments, and wartime departments (First World War). Home Office: Registered Papers (HO 45). Registered Papers, 1920 onwards., of United Kingdom. National Archives at Kew (London, England - Kew) (October 1924); in Appointment of Joseph H. Fisher, 1924, Ireland: Irish Boundary Commission. 1924-1926 , 1-1
Ireland: Irish Boundary Commission
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written by Irish Boundary Commission, in Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies (HO). General registers, registered papers, warrant and entry books and correspondence; and records of General and E Departments, and wartime departments (First World War). Home Office: Registered Papers (HO 45). Registered Papers, 1920 onwards., of United Kingdom. National Archives at Kew (London, England - Kew) (October 1924); in Appointment of Joseph H. Fisher, 1924, Ireland: Irish Boundary Commission. 1924-1926 , 1-1
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Ireland: Irish Boundary Commission
Date Written / Recorded
October 1924, 1924
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Author / Creator
Irish Boundary Commission
Topic / Theme
Irish Border, Political appointments, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Copyright Message
Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives give no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives Image Library, Kew, R...
Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives give no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or fitness for the purpose of the information provided. Images may be used only for purposes of research, private study or education. Applications for any other use should be made to The National Archives Image Library, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU.
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Apprehension of Two Fugitive Penal Prisoners and Their Delivery to the Thuringian Volkspolizei, November 17, 1950
in Records of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany (RG466), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (17 November 1950), Bavaria Land Commissioner, Intelligence Division, 1950-51. Reports of the Bayer Custom Police re. Border Crossings, Border Incident (1 of 2) , 1 page(s)
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in Records of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany (RG466), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (17 November 1950), Bavaria Land Commissioner, Intelligence Division, 1950-51. Reports of the Bayer Custom Police re. Border Crossings, Border Incident (1 of 2) , 1 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
17 November 1950, 1950
Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Topic / Theme
Germany and its Borders, Prisoners, Germany Divided into Occupation Zones, June 5, 1945, Cold War, 1945-1989, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Apprehension of Two SNB Men in the Border Area of Griesback, April 12, 1951
in Records of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany (RG466), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (12 April 1951), Bavaria Land Commissioner, Intelligence Division, 1950-51. Reports of the Bayer Custom Police re. Border Crossings, Border Incident (1 of 2) , 1 page(s)
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in Records of the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany (RG466), of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (12 April 1951), Bavaria Land Commissioner, Intelligence Division, 1950-51. Reports of the Bayer Custom Police re. Border Crossings, Border Incident (1 of 2) , 1 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
12 April 1951, 1951
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Topic / Theme
Germany and its Borders, Crossing borders, Political boundaries, Germany Divided into Occupation Zones, June 5, 1945, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Approach to Israel on Border Talks
in General Records of the Department of State (RG59). Intelligence Research Files of Herbert A. Fine Relating to the Palestinian Problem, 1947-1971, of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (08 June 1954), Box 1, Border Incidents General and UNTSO, June 1, 1954 - December 31, 1954 , 1 page(s)
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in General Records of the Department of State (RG59). Intelligence Research Files of Herbert A. Fine Relating to the Palestinian Problem, 1947-1971, of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (08 June 1954), Box 1, Border Incidents General and UNTSO, June 1, 1954 - December 31, 1954 , 1 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
08 June 1954, 1954
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Person Discussed
Moshe Sharett, 1894-1965
Topic / Theme
Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria Borders, International relations, Political boundaries, Politics & Policy, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Arab Forces Said to be Ready to Crush Israel, March 22, 1965
in General Records of the Department of State (RG59). Intelligence Research Files of Herbert A. Fine Relating to the Palestinian Problem, 1947-1971, of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (22 March 1965), Box 2, Border Incidents General. January 1, 1958 - May 1967 , 2 page(s)
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in General Records of the Department of State (RG59). Intelligence Research Files of Herbert A. Fine Relating to the Palestinian Problem, 1947-1971, of United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Federal Records (22 March 1965), Box 2, Border Incidents General. January 1, 1958 - May 1967 , 2 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
22 March 1965, 1965
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Topic / Theme
Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria Borders, International relations, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, Arabs, Israelis, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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