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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780875653389
- Subject Area
- Nature, Travel, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Publication Name
- Imaginary Line : a History of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, 1848-1857
- Publisher
- TCU Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Subject
- Latin America / Mexico, United States / West / General, Military / General, General, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Regional, Surveying, North America, United States / General
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 20 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
TCU Press
ISBN-10
0875653383
ISBN-13
9780875653389
eBay Product ID (ePID)
56999428
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Imaginary Line : a History of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, 1848-1857
Subject
Latin America / Mexico, United States / West / General, Military / General, General, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Regional, Surveying, North America, United States / General
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Travel, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-027539
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
972.1
Synopsis
The line dividing the United States and Mexico is invisible, "imaginary," drawn through shifting sands and changeable rivers. The economic, social, and political issues surrounding this line, however, are all too real, and the line snakes its way through a history of conflict, through questions of definition, maps and claims of ownership, and personal and political gerrymandering. In The Imaginary Line: A History of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, 1848-1857, Joseph Richard Werne sets out to explore this border and the men who drew it. Using a variety of sources, including manuscripts, government documents, contemporary accounts, and memoirs, he creates a map of his own, one that charts the intersection of individual lives, politics, and geography. Werne proposes to revise the common view of the U.S.-Mexican Boundary Survey Commission as directed and funded almost entirely by the United States; the recent release of documents and archived files from the Mexican Boundary Commission allows further study of the Mexican commission's role and demands recognition of the equal Mexican contribution to the commission's immense task. The diverse group of military and civilian surveyors, engineers, and politicians that composed the Joint Commission had to reconcile disparate personal interests and backgrounds, as well as different maps and equipment. Their efforts were of "epic quality" and represent the coinciding cooperation and conflict that comprises border relations today. Werne's study describes their lives and work, their survival of the hostile environment, and their struggles with inadequate funding and government corruption, tying their stories into the approaching civilwar in the United States, the rapidly lengthening transcontinental railroad, and political instability in Mexico., The line dividing the United States and Mexico is invisible, drawn through shifting sands and changeable rivers. This work aims to explore this border and the men who drew it. Using a variety of sources, including manuscripts and government documents, it creates a map that charts the intersection of individual lives, politics, and geography., The line dividing the United States and Mexico is invisible, "imaginary," drawn through shifting sands and changeable rivers. The economic, social, and political issues surrounding this line, however, are all too real, and the line snakes its way through a history of conflict, through questions of definition, maps and claims of ownership, and personal and political gerrymandering. In The Imaginary Line: A History of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, 1848 - 1857 , Joseph Richard Werne sets out to explore this border and the men who drew it. Using a variety of sources, including manuscripts, government documents, contemporary accounts, and memoirs, he creates a map of his own, one that charts the intersection of individual lives, politics, and geography. Werne proposes to revise the common view of the U.S.-Mexican Boundary Survey Commission as directed and funded almost entirely by the United States; the recent release of documents and archived files from the Mexican Boundary Commission allows further study of the Mexican commission's role and demands recognition of the equal Mexican contribution to the commission's immense task. The diverse group of military and civilian surveyors, engineers, and politicians that composed the Joint Commission had to reconcile disparate personal interests and backgrounds, as well as different maps and equipment. Their efforts were of "epic quality" and represent the coinciding cooperation and conflict that describes border relations today. Werne's study describes their lives and work, their survival of the hostile environment, and their struggles with inadequate funding and government corruption, tying their stories into the approaching civil war in the United States, the rapidly lengthening transcontinental railroad, and political instability in Mexico.
LC Classification Number
F786.W44 2007
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