The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo Leon, 1848-1910

Rating:
Summary: A good assessment
Review: This is not a book about the making of mexican border, which is the real problem with it. Rather it is a history of the 'border culture' and the U.S involvement uaually in Northern Mexico as financiers and owners of industry, from car manufacturing to Oil and railroads. AMericans have had an impact on mexico, usually one that is viewed by the nationalist Mexican academics and anti-american self hating U.S academics as detrimental and 'colonialist'. This summation of the encounter is not all together fair when one considers that Americans may not own land in mexico and that all AMerican landownings were illegally confiscated by the mexican government, while the U.S dishes out billions in health care to illegall aliens. But this is a history of that encounter.

Nevertheless the more interesting topic of how the Mexican governemnt settled its northern borders is not covered. The Mexican suppression of Native peoples and exploitation of its people is not covered either. This is the downfall

Seth J. Frantzman