Boom and Bust
Language: English
Published by Eakin Press, US, 2026
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- Title
- Boom and Bust
- Author
- Milo Kearney, Anthony Knopp
- Publisher
- Eakin Press, US
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0890158150
- ISBN 13
- 9780890158159
- Item weight
- 449 grams
For centuries, the communities surrounding the mouth of the Rio Grande have been shaped by recurring periods of prosperity, conflict, expansion, and decline. Boom and Bust tells the intertwined story of Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas-two border cities whose histories cannot be fully understood apart from one another.
Beginning with the earliest evidence of human occupation in the Rio Grande delta, historians Milo Kearney and Anthony Knopp trace the region's development through colonization, international conflict, population growth, river commerce, agriculture, transportation, industrialization, and the emergence of maquiladoras and free-trade debates.
Drawing upon the authors' original research as well as the work of numerous scholars and regional historians, the book reveals how economic and political changes on both sides of the border repeatedly transformed the fortunes of Matamoros, Brownsville, and the surrounding Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Local dichos, or traditional folk sayings, add the voices and wisdom of the region's people, while Peter Gawenda's illustrations bring its history and character to life. Rich in regional detail, Boom and Bust is an essential resource for readers interested in South Texas, northern Mexico, border culture, and the shared history of the United States and Mexico.
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About the Author
Anthony Keith Knopp has been instructor in history at Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, since 1970. For the past ten years he has been chairman of the Social Science Department. Prior to that time, he served as assistant to the dean of the graduate programs in education, director of programs in teacher education, assistant professor at the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and assistant professor of history at San Antonio College. He received his doctorate in history at Texas Tech University in 1973 and did undergraduate work at the college of St. Thomas and the University of Minnesota. He is vice-president of the Faculty Association at Texas Southmost College and president of the Brownsville Historical Association.
Peter B. Gawenda received a doctorate in educational administration from the University of Houston and presently serves as assistant to the president and director of Institutional Research and Planning at the University of Texas-Pan American at Brownsville. A native of Germany, he developed a hobby of art into a career and now paints, illustrates, and sculpts with modern and conventional media. He has exhibited in Germany, the United States, France, the Netherlands, Mexico, and other countries.
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