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These Ragged Edges

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cartels
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cattle rustling
Chihuahua
Comanche
coyotes
drugs
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Gregorio Cortez
Juan Cortina
lynching
Mexican Revolution
migrants
Narcos
New Mexico
Porfiriato
smuggling
Texas borderlands
U.S.-Mexican War
U.S.-Mexico border
Violence
violence in Mexico
violence in the United States
women in drug cartels

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  • ISBN 9781469668383
  • Weight: 334g
  • Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Jul 2022
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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The U.S.-Mexico border has earned an enduring reputation as a site of violence. During the past twenty years in particular, the drug wars--fueled by the international movement of narcotics and vast sums of money--have burned an abiding image of the border as a place of endemic danger into the consciousness of both countries. By the media, popular culture, and politicians, mayhem and brutality are often portrayed as the unavoidable birthright of this transnational space. Through multiple perspectives from both sides of the border, the collected essays in These Ragged Edges directly challenge that idea, arguing that rapidly changing conditions along the U.S.-Mexico border through the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries have powerfully shaped the ebb and flow of conflict within the region. By diving deeply into diverse types of violence, contributors dissect the roots and consequences of border violence across numerous eras, offering a transnational analysis of how and why violence has affected the lives of so many inhabitants on both sides of the border.

Contributors include Alberto Barrera-Enderle, Alice Baumgartner, Timothy Bowman, Lance R. Blyth, Elaine Carey, William D. Carrigan, Jose Carlos Cisneros Guzman, Alejandra Diaz de Leon, Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Quiroga, Santiago Ivan Guerra, Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle, Sonia Hernandez, Alan Knight, Jose Gabriel Martinez Serna, Brandon Morgan, and Joaquin Rivaya-Martinez, Andrew J. Torget, and Clive Webb.
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Andrew J. Torget is author of Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850.

Gerardo Gurza-Lavalle is professor of history at the Instituto Mora in Mexico City.