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Book Synopsis
The first comprehensive historical study of evolving enforcement efforts on American land borders at the turn of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Menaces Without: Immigrant Aliens and the Origins of Immigration Restrictions
  • Chapter 2. Diverted Streams: Discovering a Permeable Border, 1882-1891
  • Chapter 3. Drawing the Lines: Blueprints for Immigration Enforcement on the Borders, 1891-1910
  • Chapter 4. Erasing the Lines: Immigrant Ingenuity on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1895-1910
  • Chapter 5. Northward Bound: Mexican Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees at the Border, 1900-1921
  • Chapter 6. The Sisyphean Task: Origins of the Modern Border
  • Epilogue: An Imaginary Line: Change and Continuity on the U.S.-Mexico Border
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/12/2009
      ISBN13: 9780292725782, 978-0292725782
      ISBN10: 0292725787

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first comprehensive historical study of evolving enforcement efforts on American land borders at the turn of the twentieth century.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1. The Menaces Without: Immigrant Aliens and the Origins of Immigration Restrictions
      • Chapter 2. Diverted Streams: Discovering a Permeable Border, 1882-1891
      • Chapter 3. Drawing the Lines: Blueprints for Immigration Enforcement on the Borders, 1891-1910
      • Chapter 4. Erasing the Lines: Immigrant Ingenuity on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1895-1910
      • Chapter 5. Northward Bound: Mexican Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees at the Border, 1900-1921
      • Chapter 6. The Sisyphean Task: Origins of the Modern Border
      • Epilogue: An Imaginary Line: Change and Continuity on the U.S.-Mexico Border
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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