Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders

This collection focuses broadly on the role of law in the construction of U.S. borders and takes up an important question raised by the global turn in American studies scholarship: once territory becomes less critical to scholarship in the discipline, what constitutes the frame of American studies?

For this project, a "border" is not simply a territorial boundary. Borders are created through formal legal controls on entry and exit, through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801884144
• ISBN13: 9780801884146
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"