Book ID: CBB001422402

On the Edge: Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest (2013)

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Miller, Char (Author)


Trinity University Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xxi + 248 pp.; notes
Language: English

On the Edge grew out of a lifetime spent living and traveling across the American Southwest, from San Antonio to Los Angeles. Internal to the various U.S. states and Mexico's northern tier, there are struggles over water, debates over undocumented immigrants, the criminalizing of the border, and the region's evolution into a no-man's land. The book investigates how we live on this contested land---how we make our place in its often arid terrain, an ecosystem that burns easily and floods often and defies our efforts to nestle in its foothills, canyons, and washes. It explores the challenges in the Southwest of learning how to live within this complex natural system while grasping its historical and environmental frameworks. Understanding these framing devices is critical to reaching the political accommodations necessary to build a more generous society, a more habitable landscape, and a more just community.

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Review Orsi, Jared (2015) Review of "On the Edge: Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest". Environmental History (pp. 559-560). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Alfonso De Nardo
Alvise Fiume
Busch, Andrew M.
Williams, John
Raito, Leonardo
Franco Pozzati
Concepts
Environmental history
Water resource management
Floods
Landscape; landscapes
Rivers
Disasters; catastrophes
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
Renaissance
Republic of Venice (697–1797)
Early modern
19th century
Places
Italy
United States
Lombardy
Texas (U.S.)
Apennines
Po River
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