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By drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, 1997 IDRF Fellow Casey Walsh explores the complex relationships among various groups comprising the “social field” of cotton production in the borderlands. In Building the Borderlands, Walsh contributes to a clearer understanding of capitalism and the state, of transnational economic forces, of agricultural and water issues in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands, and of the environmental impacts of economic development. Building the Borderlands crosses a number of disciplinary, thematic, and regional frontiers, integrating perspectives and literature from the United States and Mexico, from anthropology and history, and from political, economic, and cultural studies. Buy this book from Amazon.