“Martínez masterfully stitches together ample examples of slaughter, sin and subversion spewing from this side of the border.”—Texas Observer
“Oscar Martínez’s work, Ciudad Juárez: Saga of a Legendary Border City and career-long commitment to scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands remind scholars and readers alike that the past, present, and future of North America, Mexico and the United States, and Ciudad Juárez and El Paso are intricately connected.”—Texas Books in Review
“This text skillfully weaves rich scholarship with contemporary accounts depicting the everyday lives and struggles of the city's inhabitants. An important contribution to the field of Mexican history, this book will be invaluable for scholars yet is accessible to readers less familiar with the topic.”—Choice
"Ciudad Juárez: Saga of a Legendary Border City is a well- written and concise history of Mexico’s largest border city."—William F. Manger, Historical Geography
“Oscar J. Martínez is perhaps the leading pioneer of contemporary borderlands history. Even before the concept of borderlands history and studies came into vogue, Martínez was developing this field. His 1978 book Border Boom Town: Ciudad Juárez since 1848 (University of Texas Press) is now a classic. A son of this border community, Martínez knows it not only personally but also historically. Ciudad Juárez: Saga of a Legendary Border City is a welcome revised and enlarged edition of the 1978 book on its fortieth anniversary.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly
“Forty years after his pathbreaking Border Boom Town: Ciudad Juárez since 1848, Oscar J. Martínez takes a fresh look at the legendary borderlands city. Martínez writes evocatively, with great clarity, in this richly documented book that permits comparison between past and present debates.”—Kathleen Staudt, author of Border Politics in a Global Era: Comparative Perspectives
“The most important Mexican border city unpacked and interpreted. Martínez knows Ciudad Juárez, and this work shines like no other.”—Daniel D. Arreola, author of Postcards from the Sonora Border: Visualizing Place Through a Popular Lens, 1900s–1950s
“This study not only illuminates the development of Ciudad Juárez, but also says much about El Paso, the U.S.-Mexican border, and relations between the United States and Mexico.”—Paul Ganster, co-author of The U.S.-Mexican Border Today: Conflict and Cooperation in Historical Perspective
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