Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction. Making Transnational History: Nations, Regions, and Borderlands 1
6. Frontier Legacies
7. Finding the Balance: Béxar in Mexican/Indian Relations 35
8. Fathers of the Pueblo: Patriarchy and Power in Mexican California, 1800–1880 67
9. Borderland Stories
10. Race, Agency, and Memory in a Baja California Mission 97
11. An Expedition and Its Many Tales 121
12. Imagining Alternative Modernities: Ignacio Martínez’s Travel Narratives 151
13. Transnational Identities
14. At Exclusion’s Southern Gate: Changing Categories of Race and Class among Chinese Fronterizos, 1882–1904 183
15. Between North and South: The Alternative Borderlands of William H. Ellis and the African American Colony of 1895 209
16. TransnationalWarrior: Emilio Kosterlitzky and the Transformation of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1873–1928 241
17. Body Politics
18. The Plan de San Diego Uprising and the Making of the Modern Texas-Mexican Borderlands 273
19. Nationalism on the Line: Masculinity, Race, and the Creation of the U.S. Border Patrol, 1910–1940 299
20. Conclusion: Borderlands Unbound 325
21. Contributors 329
22. Index 331