Description: Imaginary Line : A History of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, 1, Hardcover by Werne, Joseph Richard, ISBN 0875653383, ISBN-13 9780875653389, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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, 18481857, 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 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 commissions role and demands recognition of the equal Mexican contribution to the commissions 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. Wernes 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.
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Book Title: Imaginary Line : A History of the United States and Mexican Bound
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Imaginary Line : a History of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, 1848-1857
Language: English
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Subject: Latin America / Mexico, United States / West / General, Military / General, General, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Regional, Surveying, North America, United States / General
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2007
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Nature, Travel, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: Joseph Richard Werne
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
