Advanced Seminar: Fixing Boundaries, Crossing Borders: History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

4 units

This seminar will cover the history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands from its indigenous past to the era of colonial encounters and national consolidations. Emphasizing the formation of the borderlands as a process, the course will examine a variety of economic, political, socio-cultural, and legal factors that have shaped and reshaped the development of the border region.