Deadly divide : how insects, pathogens, and people defied the US-Mexico border /

"When most people picture the US-Mexico border, they think of walls, fences, concrete, and wire. But in this first history of how the environment influenced physical boundary-making between the two nations, Mary E. Mendoza focuses on how the natural world shaped ideas about race, gender, and se...

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Main Author:	Mendoza, Mary E. (Author)
Corporate Author:	William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies (sponsoring body.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : University of North Carolina Press, [2026]
Subjects:	Immigrants > Mexican-American Border Region. Introduced organisms > Mexican-American Border Region. Race discrimination > United States. Border security > United States. Mexican-American Border Region > History. Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Histoire. Espèces introduites > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine. HISTORY / Historical Geography. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Border security Immigrants Introduced organisms Race discrimination North America > Mexican-American Border Region United States