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  • The Deadly 1940 Alamo Train Crash

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    On March 14, 1940, a train heading west along Highway 83 from Donna to Alamo struck a truck driver turning north from the highway onto Tower Road. The horrific crash killed twenty-nine of about forty-five farmworkers who were on the truck. A one-day investigation faulted the truck driver and led to meager court settlements for the devastated families. In the wake of these events, several of the ... En savoir plus

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  • The Queen Isabella Causeway Collapse

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    In the days after 9/11, the country was on high alert. So when an alarming incident occurred just off the Texas coast on the early morning hours of September 15th, authorities immediately assumed another terrorist attack had taken place. A towing vessel collided into a support pillar of the Queen Isabella Causeway, causing an 80-foot section of the bridge to tumble into the ocean. Unfortunately, ... En savoir plus

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  • LatinoLand

    A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

    par Marie Arana ...
    “A perfect representation of Latino diversity” (The Washington Post), LatinoLand draws from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research to give us both a vibrant portrait and the little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority, in “a work of prophecy, sympathy, and courage” (Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize–winning author).LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $17.99 CAD Maintenant $3.99 CAD

  • Amexica

    War Along the Borderline

    par Ed Vulliamy ...
    The harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the US-Mexico border as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch."Vulliamy, with a mix of irony and pathos, writes like a latter-day Graham Greene. . . . Like all good travel writing, Amexica is vivid, colorful, and exotic, filled with stirring vignettes and larger-than-life characters." — The New York Times Book Review"Extraordinary. ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • El Paso

    Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory

    par Jazmine Ulloa ...
    From New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town.El Paso has been called the “Ellis Island” of America’s southern border, a mountain pass cum border town cum bifurcated metropolis where past meets future, and disadvantage meets opportunity, or so the promise goes.El Paso is an ... En savoir plus

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  • The Crossing

    El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story

    par Richard Parker ...
    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Southwest Book of the Year “Top Pick”“American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest,’ Parker asserts, in this sweeping history.” —The New YorkerA revelatory work of Southwest history that recenters the American origin story two-thousand miles west of Plymouth Rock, in El Paso, Texas—heart of Indigenous power and resistance, locus ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • American Oasis

    Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest

    par Kyle Paoletta ...
    An expansive and revelatory historical exploration of the multicultural, water-seeking, land-destroying settlers of the most arid corner of North America, arguing that in order to know where the United States is going in the era of mass migration and climate crisis we must understand where the Southwest has already been“A lively, thoughtful tour.”—The Los Angeles Times • “Elegant.”—The New Yorker ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • On the Border

    Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier

    par Tom Miller ...
    Tom Miller's On the Border frames the land between the United States and Mexico as a Third Country, one 2,000 miles long and twenty miles wide. This Third Country has its own laws and its own outlaws. Its music, language, and food are unique. On the Border, a first-person travel narrative, portrays this bi-national culture, "unforgettable to every reader lucky enough to discover this gem of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Buenavida Dilemma

    Whether to Become "Gringos"

    par Jose N. Uranga ...
    The Buenavida Dilemma is a rich account of the history and life experiences of Hispanics in the Southwest and West from the 1850s through today. Using five generations of the Buenavida family, the author describes the social and cultural events and issues, including legal conflicts affecting Hispanics. Hot and controversial topics such as "English Only" laws; discrimination in schools and ... En savoir plus

    $5.39 CAD

  • La Calle

    Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City

    par Lydia R. Otero ...
    On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical, predominantly Mexican American heart of the city, an area most called “la calle.” Here, amid small ... En savoir plus

    $31.89 CAD

  • A Map: From the Old Connecticut Path to the Rio Grande Valley and All the Meaning in Between

    Collections series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics."I come to you from a place where the earth is pink”—thus Chellis Glendinning begins her warm evocation of place, the place in New Mexico where she lives, the particular spots on the map where other people have learned to set their roots, connect with ... En savoir plus

    $1.36 CAD

  • The Dangerous Divide

    Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border

    Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has steadily ramped up security along the US-Mexico border, transforming America's legendary Southwest into a frontier of fear. Veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt roams this fabled region from Tucson, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas, bringing readers face-to-face with the victims, power players, and personalities that have riveted US attention on border ... En savoir plus

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