The Disappearing Border

From Publishers Weekly A former U.S. embassy official in Mexico and now a consulting professor of Latin American studies at Stanford University, Smith offers an accessible but textbook-like survey of major past and present issues that have arisen between the two neighbors. A reader wishing an introduction to the subject can learn much: how anti-Americanism weighs heavily on Mexican consciousness as a legacy from the Mexican War--known to our southern neighbors as the "War of the North American I...