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The issues that dominate U.S.-Mexico border relations today—integration of economies, policing of boundaries, and the flow of workers from south to north and of capital from north to south—are not recent developments. In this insightful history of the state of Nuevo León, Juan Mora-Torres explores how these processes transformed northern Mexico into a region with distinct economic, political, social, and cultural features that set it apart from the interior of Mexico. Mora-Torres argues that the years between the establishment of the U.S.-Mexico boundary in 1848 and the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 constitute a critical period in Mexican history. The processes of state-bui...
Presents the home page for the Government of the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Provides information about the State's Congress, the State Finance and General Treasury Office, the General Justice Office, the Education Office, the Economic Development Secretary, and the Urban and Public Constructions Development Secretary, among others. Includes information about the Quality Center and the Mexican History Museum, and offers links to other government home pages. Some information is provided in both English and Spanish while some is available only in the Spanish version.