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La Otra Frontera: Exiles, Engineering, And State Power In The Chiapan Borderlands, Aaron Margolis
La Otra Frontera: Exiles, Engineering, And State Power In The Chiapan Borderlands, Aaron Margolis
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This Dissertation examines the political, cultural, and economic history of the Chiapan borderlands from its political incorporation into the post-independence Mexican state in 1821 until the arrival of Guatemalan refugees in the 1980's. This history is explored through the directives, interactions, and policies of officials from Mexico City as the borderlands drifted in and out of the orbit of the priorities of the changing governments of independent Mexico.
A large part of the Dissertation examines how the post-revolutionary Mexican state re-discovered and conceptualized the borderlands as a both a threat to national security and a potential site of energy derived …