How do the authors of the readings (with contextual support from the weeks’ materials) from the last
How do the authors of the readings (with contextual support from the weeks’ materials) from the last two weeks analyze the formation and development of the border between the US and Mexico? Critique and/or support their arguments. 3-5 pages in length.
Readings:
Griswold de la Castillo, Richard. “Manifest Destiny: The Mexican-American War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo” Sw. JL & Trade Am. 5 (1998): 31-45.
Lee, Erika. "Enforcing the Borders: Chinese Exclusion along the US Borders with Canada and Mexico, 1882–1924." The Journal of American History 89, no. 1 (2002): 54-86.
Parra, Carlos Francisco. "Valientes Nogalenses: The 1918 Battle between the US and Mexico that Transformed Ambos Nogales." The Journal of Arizona History 51, no. 1 (2010): 1-32.
Raat, William Dirk. "The Diplomacy of Suppression: Los Revoltosos, México, and the United States, 1906-1911." The Hispanic American Historical Review 56, no. 4 (1976): 529-550.
Richmond, Douglas W. "Mexican Immigration and Border Strategy during the Revolution, 1910-1920." New Mexico Historical Review 57, no. 3 (1982): 269-288.
Young, Elliott. "Remembering Catarino Garza’s 1891 Revolution: An Aborted Border Insurrection." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 12, no. 2 (1996): 231-272.
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