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Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World, 1914-1948
by Ramachandra GuhaThe second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in world history. <p><p> This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India's economic and moral self-reliance. We see how in each of these campaigns, Gandhi adapted methods of nonviolence--strikes, marches, fasts--that successfully challenged British authority, religious orthodoxy, social customs, and would influence non-violent, revolutionary movements throughout the world. <p> In reconstructing Gandhi's life and work, Ramachandra Guha has drawn on sixty different archival collections, the most significant among them, a previously unavailable collection of papers belonging to Gandhi himself. <p> Using this wealth of material, Guha creates a portrait of Gandhi and of those closest to him--family, friends, political and social leaders--that illuminates the complexity inside his thinking, his motives, his actions and their outcomes as he engaged with every important aspect of social and public life in the India of his time.
Gandhi: Young Nation Builder (Childhood of Famous Americans Series)
by Kathleen V. KudlinskiThis book narrates the fascinating early years and eventual accomplishments of the inspiring leader, Mahatma Gandhi, who is known as the Father of the Nation of India.
Gandhian Engagement with Capital: Perspectives of J C Kumarappa
by Chaitra RedkarGandhian Engagement with Capital: Perspectives of J C Kumarappa comprehensively presents the Gandhian ideas on economic development and political economy. Within this larger context, it focuses on the towering contributions of J C Kumarappa, the pioneer of the Gandhian model of economic development, and describes, from his standpoint, how the moral and political dispositions of Gandhism amount to a critique of capitalism. The book also covers in detail the major facets of Kumarappa’s contribution to Gandhism: developing a non-mechanized, non-capitalist model of industrialization; presenting the holistic development approach; reflecting on the role of the state in facilitating a village-centric economy; and exploring the role of religion in developing the moral foundation of the Gandhian political economy. These reflect the historical context of Kumarappa’s scholarship and his deep understanding of the various dimensions of Gandhian thought. The book highlights the debates within Gandhism and imparts a nuanced understanding of other Gandhian thinkers. Further, it presents several discourses in modern Indian political thought by analysing the interplay of narratives.
Gandhiji (Gujarati)
by Jugatram Daveગૂજરાત વિદ્યાપીઠ તરફથી દર વરસે ગાંધીજયંતીને દિવસે ‘ગાંધીજીવન-ઝાંખી‘ની પરીક્ષા લેવાય છે. પાંચથી સાત ધોરણના વિદ્યાર્થીઓ માટેની આ પરીક્ષામાં કુદસિયા જૈદીનું ‘ગાંધીબાપુ‘ પુસ્તક શરૂથી પાઠ્યપુસ્તક તરીકે ચાલે છે. ચાલુ વરસથી આ પુસ્તક ઉપરાંત ગાંધીજીના જીવનના પ્રસંગો આલેખતું સ્વ. શ્રી જુગતરામ દવેનું ‘ગાંધીજી‘ પુસ્તક પણ પાઠ્યપુસ્તક તરીકે ઉમેરવાનું નક્કી થયું છે. એ પુસ્તકની પહેલી આવૃત્તિ 1929માં પ્રસિદ્ધ થયેલી. આજ સુધીમાં તેની લગભગ લાખ જેટલી નકલો વેચાઈ છે. આ પુસ્તક એ જ પુસ્તકની પરીક્ષા માટેની રાહત દરની ખાસ આવૃત્તિ છે. પરીક્ષામાં બેસનાર વિદ્યાર્થીઓ ગાંધીજીના જીવન અને કાર્યને વ્યક્ત કરતાં કાવ્યોનો મુખપાઠ કરે તે જરૂરી લાગતાં આ આવૃત્તિમાં તેવાં પાંચ કાવ્યો પુસ્તકને અંતે આપ્યાં છે.
Gandhiji (Hindi)
by Jugatram Daveपिछले बारह बरससे गुजरातके बालक इस पुस्तकको बड़े चावके साथ पढ़ते आ रहे हैं| बारह बरस पहले श्री जुगतरामभाईने इसे गुजरातके हमारे बालमित्रोंके लिए लिखा था| उन्हीं दिनोंमें मैंने इसका एक अनुवाद किया था, जो बादमें कहीं लापता हो गया| बारह साल बाद अबको मुझे मौका मिला और मैंने इसका दुबारा अनुवाद किया| पुस्तक आपके हाथमें है| आप इसे पढ़िये| उत्साह और उमंगके साथ पढ़िये| बार-बार पढ़िये और पढ़कर गांधीजीके जीवनको समझनेकी कोशिश कीजिये| ईश्वर करे, पूज्य गांधीजीके जीवनकी ये झाँकियाँ हममें से हरएकको ऊँचा उठाने और आगे बढ़नेवाली हों!
Gandhiji and International Politics
by P. C. Roy ChaudhuryGandhiji never lived and died for the freedom of India alone. He had observed: “Through realization of freedom of India I hope to realize and carry on the mission of the brotherhood of man.” With him not to believe in the possibility of international peace was to disbelieve in the godliness of human nature. Truly Gandhiji was the universal man—the man who stands out as the landmark and his value as the universal man will go on increasing through the passage of time. Gandhiji is dead but Gandhism shall survive the lashes of time and changes in the material world.
Gandhijinu Jivan — Emnaj Shabdoma
by Krishna Kruplaniહું મારા ઘરની આસપાસ દીવાલ ચણી લેવા તથા મારી બારીઓ બંધ કરી દેવા નથી માગતો. મારા ઘરની આસપાસ સઘળા દેશોની સંસ્કૃતિના પવનની લહેરીઓ છૂટથી વાતી રહે એમ હું ઇચ્છું છું. પણ પવનની એવી કોઈ લહરી દ્વારા જમીનથી અધ્ધર થઈ જવાનો હું ઇનકાર કરું છું. સાહિત્યમાં રસ ધરાવતાં આપણાં તરુણ સ્ત્રીપુરુષો અંગ્રેજી ભાષા તેમ જ બીજી વિશ્વભાષાઓ પેટ ભરીને શીખે એમ હું ઇચ્છું છું. અને પછી તેઓ જગદીશચંદ્ર બોઝ, પ્રફુલ્લચંદ્ર રોય અને કવિવર રવીન્દ્રનાથ ટાગોરની પેઠે પોતાના અભ્યાસનો લાભ હિંદને તથા દુનિયાને આપે એવી તેમની પાસેથી અપેક્ષા રાખું. પરંતુ એક પણ હિંદવાસી પોતાની માતૃભાષાને ભૂલે, તેની અવગણના કરે કે તેનાથી શરમાય અથવા પોતાની માતૃભાષામાં પોતે વિચાર કરી શકતો નથી કે પોતાના વિચારો સારામાં સારી રીતે દર્શાવી શકતો નથી એમ તેને લાગે, એમ હું ઇચ્છતો નથી. મારો ધર્મ ચોકાપંથી નથી. — ગાંધીજી
Gandhijinu Khovayelu Dhan: Harilal Gandhi
by Nilam Parikhજેમના વિશે કલાકૃતિઓ તૈયાર થઈ હોય એવી વ્યકિતઓ પ્રત્યે ઊંચા આદર અને સન્માન ધરાવનારી બધી વ્યક્તિઓ અને સંસ્થાઓનો એ ધર્મ બની રહે છે કે તેઓ આદરણીય વ્યક્તિઓ અંગેની જે કાંઈ નાનીમોટી બધી જ હકીકતો કે અન્ય સાહિત્ય ઉપલબ્ધ હોય અને હજી સુધી પ્રકાશમાં ન આવ્યાં હોય તેને લોકો સમક્ષ રજૂ કરે જેથી તે આદરણીય વ્યક્તિઓનાં થતાં ભૂલભરેલાં ચિત્રણ અને તેને કારણે થતા અન્યાય સામે ઢાલ બની રહે. આ ભાવનાથી દોરાઈને આ વિચારને અમલમાં મૂકવા આ પુસ્તક પ્રગટ કરવાનું નક્કી કર્યું.
Gandhijinu Shikshan Darshan
by Mahatma Gandhiશિક્ષણ દ્વારા પ્રજાનું ચારિત્ર્યઘડતર કર્યા સિવાયની દેશની બધી પ્રગતિ એકડા વગરના મીડા બરાબર સાબિત થવાની છે એની ખાતરી એમને થઈ ચૂકી હતી. તેથી જ આઝાદીના આગમના પૂર્વે કોઈએ એમને પૂછેલું કે સ્વતંત્રતા બાદ શિક્ષણનો તમારો આદર્શ શો હશે? ત્યારે એકક્ષણનાય વિલંબ વિના એમણે કહેલું: ચારિત્રઘડતર. આઝાદી પછી આપણે ત્યાં રાષ્ટ્રીય વિકાસની અનેક યોજનાઓ ઘડાઈ અને અમલમાં મુકાઈ. એ દ્વારા દેશે ઘણો ભૌતિક વિકાસ સાધ્યો છે એ હકીકત છે. પરંતુ લોકોના સર્વાંગીણ ચારિત્ર્યઘડતર માટે જે થવું ઘટે.
Gandhijiyin Irudhi 200 Naatkal: காந்திஜியின் இறுதி 200 நாட்கள்
by V. Ramamurthyஇந்நூலில் காந்திஜியின் கடைசி 200 நாட்கள் ஆவணப்படுத்தப்பட்டிருக்கின்றன. மேலும் அவர் தன்னுடைய கடைசி 200 நாட்களில் மக்களுக்காக எவ்வளவு பாடுபட்டார் என்பதை பற்றி வி. ராமமூர்த்தி மிகவும் அவர்கள் மிகுந்த பொறுப்புணர்வுடன் கூறியுள்ளார்.
Gandhi’s Autobiographical Construction of Selfhood: The Story of His Experiments with Truth
by Clara NearyThis book addresses the topics of autobiography, self-representation and status as a writer in Mahatma Gandhi's autobiographical work The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927, 1929). Gandhi remains an elusive figure, despite the volumes of literature written on him in the seven decades since his assassination. Scholars and biographers alike agree that “no work on his life has portrayed him in totality” (Desai, 2009), and, although “arguably the most popular figure of the first half of the twentieth century” and “one of the most eminent luminaries of our time,” Gandhi the individual remains “as much an enigma as a person of endless fascination” (Murrell, 2008). Yet there has been relatively little scholarly engagement with Gandhi’s autobiography, and published output has largely been concerned with mining the text for its biographical details, with little concern for how Gandhi represents himself. The author addresses this gap in the literature, while also considering Gandhi as a writer. This book provides a close reading of the linguistic structure of the text with particular focus upon Gandhi’s self-representation, drawing on a cognitive stylistic framework for analysing linguistic representations of selfhood (Emmott 2002). It will be of interest to stylisticians, cognitive linguists, discourse analysts, and scholars in related fields such as Indian literature and postcolonial studies.
Gandhi’s Battlefield Choice: The Mahatma, The Bhagavad Gita, and World War II
by Francis G. HutchinsThis much anticipated volume compares and contrasts Gandhi’s non-violent leadership during World War II to the military leadership of Arjuna in the war that prompted the Bhagavad Gita dialogue, the Sanskrit text that guided Gandhi’s actions throughout his life. Early in his career as leader of India’s campaign to end British rule, Gandhi resisted terrorist interpretations of the Gita and described the Gita as depicting a metaphorical battle between good and evil impulses within every human heart. Then when India was drawn into a world war not unlike that in which Arjuna reluctantly led his troops into combat, Gandhi embraced his role as battlefield commander of the millions he had trained to be non-violent warriors. Never abandoning his dedication to non-violence, Gandhi stressed to his recruits that they should act as non-violently as possible but should not passively accept injustice. Remaining true to the Bhagavad Gita while responding to urgent hazards affecting all Indians, Gandhi himself became a wartime battlefield commander leading millions in the climactic Quit India conflict that ended British rule. <P><P>The volume provides an overview of Gandhi’s entire career as leader of the Indian Nationalist Movement, clarifies Gandhi’s approach to acting non-violently when surrounded by violence, and affirms Gandhi’s enduring importance as a source of inspiration around the world. P><P>Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Gandhi’s Emissary
by Sudhir GhoshIn 1946, at the age of 29, the author was chosen by Mahatma Gandhi to act as unofficial emissary between the British Labour Government and India in the delicate negotiations which resulted in the country’s independence. His unique position enabled him to give the world a moving and informed account of the principal actors in the drama that led to the division of India and Pakistan and the creation of a parliamentary democracy in India. With the resurgence of interest and debate on Partition in India and Pakistan, and around the world, in the context of current international groupings, it is fitting that this book be brought back into circulation.
Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
by Fan ShenIn 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China's Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then turned to disgust and fear when Shen discovered that his compatriots had tortured and murdered a doctor whose house he'd helped raid and whose beautiful daughter he secretly adored. A story of coming of age in the midst of monumental historical upheaval, Shen's Gang of One is more than a memoir of one young man's harrowing experience during a time of terror. It is also, in spite of circumstances of remarkable grimness and injustice, an unlikely picaresque tale of adventure full of courage, cunning, wit, tenacity, resourcefulness, and sheer luck--the story of how Shen managed to scheme his way through a hugely oppressive system and emerge triumphant. Gang of One recounts how Shen escaped, again and again, from his appointed fate, as when he somehow found himself a doctor at sixteen and even, miraculously, saved a few lives. In such volatile times, however, good luck could quickly turn to misfortune: a transfer to the East Wind Aircraft Factory got him out of the countryside and into another terrible trap, where many people were driven to suicide; his secret self-education took him from the factory to college, where friendship with an American teacher earned him the wrath of the secret police. Following a path strewn with perils and pitfalls, twists and surprises worthy of Dickens, Shen's story is ultimately an exuberant human comedy unlike any other.
Gangbuster: One Man's Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan
by Alan PrendergastA gripping and exhaustively researched, first-time account of a feared gangbuster&’s groundbreaking battles with organized crime, the KKK, and corruption at the highest levels of government sure to resonate with readers affected by the politics of contemporary society. At the height of the roaring 1920s, the ex-frontier town of Denver, Colorado, emerged from the postwar boom as the future of the American city. But the slick façade of progress and opportunity masked a murky stew of organized crime, elaborate swindles, and widespread government corruption. One man risked everything to alter the course of history. Rookie district attorney Phillip Van Cise was already making national headlines for a new brand of law enforcement. Employing military intelligence tools he&’d developed during the Great War—wiretapping, undercover operatives, communication intercepts—Van Cise crippled the criminal empire of Lou Blonger, an ex-lawman who had risen from petty scam artist to master of the Big Con. But Van Cise had even darker, more malevolent forces on his radar. The Ku Klux Klan had emerged as a shockingly mainstream middle-class movement, employing anti-immigration scare tactics, encouraging vigilantism, and instigating culture wars, all while claiming to protect true American values. Van Cise saw the toxic ideology for what it was: a new version of the Big Con sold as populism. Utilizing his pioneering surveillance techniques, Van Cise was determined to expose the Invisible Empire from within. Gripping and exhaustively researched, this prescient chronicle of Phillip Van Cise&’s spectacular career as a feared gangbuster taking on organized crime, the KKK, and corruption at the highest levels of government is a cautionary tale that mirrors our tumultuous times.
Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River
by Sudipta SenA sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world’s third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India’s most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian Sudipta Sen tells the story of the Ganges, from the communities that arose on its banks to the merchants that navigated its waters, and the way it came to occupy center stage in the history and culture of the subcontinent. Sen begins his chronicle in prehistoric India, tracing the river’s first settlers, its myths of origin in the Hindu tradition, and its significance during the ascendancy of popular Buddhism. In the following centuries, Indian empires, Central Asian regimes, European merchants, the British Empire, and the Indian nation-state all shaped the identity and ecology of the river. Weaving together geography, environmental politics, and religious history, Sen offers in this lavishly illustrated volume a remarkable portrait of one of the world’s largest and most densely populated river basins.
Gangland
by Chuck HoganFrom the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of the most infamous unprosecuted mob bosses in American history, and the hidden crime that will bring down an empire.In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the entire city of Chicago in its hands. Tony Accardo is its fearless leader. Nicky Passero is his loyal soldier, though no one knows he has a direct line in to the boss of bosses. When the Christmas gift Accardo got for his wife, an inscribed bracelet with gold and diamond inlay, is stolen along with other items in a jewelry heist, Nicky is charged with tracking down and returning all of the items—by whatever means necessary.Forced into an impossible situation, Nicky must find a way to carry out Accardo's increasingly unhinged instructions and survive the battle for control of Chicago. What Accardo doesn't know: Nicky has a secret which has made his life impossible and has put him in the pocket of the FBI.Based on the true story of Tony Accardo, the longest‑reigning mob capo in history, Gangland is a Shakespearean-esque drama of integrity, lost honor, and revenge. Gritty and action‑packed, it is the ultimate gangster tale and Chuck Hogan's most thrilling novel yet.
Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob
by Howard BlumIn the bestselling tradition of Wiseguy and Boss of Bosses -- the inside story of the fall of the "Teflon Don"The team: A handpicked squad of FBI agents -- led by a war hero determined to get the job done. The target: John Gotti, the seemingly invincible head of the richest and most powerful crime of modern-day Untouchables, the FBI's C-16 Organized Crime squad, who finally ended the cocky crime lord's reign of terror. Drawing on unprecedented access to FBI records and agents, bestselling author and prize-winning journalist Howard Blum tells the riveting and suspenseful story behind the headlines. Here is the deadly game of cat and mouse that pitted Gotti, his ruthless henchmen and his elusive law-enforcement mole against the Bureau. It is a tale of courage, murder and betrayal. From Mafia backrooms to FBI squad rooms, from the high-tech electronic invasion of Gotti's headquarters to the desperate effort to expose the mole, Gangland is more shocking than fiction -- an instant Mafia classic.
Gangland: The Case of Bentley and Craig (Routledge Revivals)
by Francis SelwynOn the evening of 2nd November 1952, a shot fired from a makeshift weapon on a warehouse roof in Croydon killed PC Sidney Miles. Next morning the newspaper headlines proclaimed a Chicago gun-battle in London, gangsters machine-gunning armed police over the rooftops.But the trial of Bentley and Craig affronted common sense and alienated a generation raised in the post-war suburbia of cinemas, coffee bars and drab streets. How could Derek Bentley, nineteen and with learning difficulties, be hanged for a murder committed a quarter of an hour after he was arrested? Lord Chief Justice Goddard and the Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, found a way. The nation was split into those determined to teach young thugs a lesson and those dismayed by an act of judicial murder. The execution of Bentley, wrote Kenneth Allsop in Picture Post, caused an emotional upset in England comparable only to Dunkirk and the death of George VI.Originally published in 1988, Gangland evokes the high drama of those weeks in the autumn of 1952. The moral authoritarianism of the Churchill government was backed by Lord Goddard’s zeal for hanging and flogging, by women’s groups demanding tougher sentences and corporal punishment, by a popular press which portrayed society under threat from cosh-boys and teenage gunmen, flick knives and horror comics, violence on the cinema screen and the printed page.Against this the demonstrators packed Whitehall, chanting ‘Bentley must not die!’ Others pointed out that violent crime was falling rather than rising. Bentley went to his death and thereby perhaps did more to discredit capital punishment than anyone. The facts of the case, including hysteria over sex and violence in the media and the clamour over rising crime which helped to ensure his execution, have a relevance to all periods of history – not least our own.
Gangland: The Great Escapes
by James Morton Susanna LobezSince the arrival of the First Fleet, thousands of prisoners have escaped from prison, police stations, courts, prison vans and hospitals—even dentists' chairs. They have driven, walked, pedalled, swum or sailed away from custody. Some have killed or been killed in the process; a few have gone overseas or escaped from foreign prisons, and a handful have remained at home, undetected. Gangland: The Great Escapes is filled with tall tales of crims—Ronald Ryan, Jockey Smith, Brenden Abbott, Julie Wright and Annie Davis, and many others—who have been recaptured in minutes and those who have stayed on the run.
Gangs and Outlaws of Western Pennsylvania (True Crime)
by Thomas White Michael HassettViolent bank heists, bold train robberies and hardened gangs all tear across the history of the wild west--western Pennsylvania, that is. The region played reluctant host to the likes of the infamous Biddle Boys, who escaped Allegheny County Jail by romancing the warden's wife, and the Cooley Gang, which held Fayette County in its violent grip at the close of the nineteenth century. Then there was Pennsylvania's own Bonnie and Clyde--Irene and Glenn--whose murderous misadventures earned the "trigger blonde" and her beau the electric chair in 1931. From the perilous train tracks of Erie to the gritty streets of Pittsburgh, authors Thomas White and Michael Hassett trace the dark history of the crooks, murderers and outlaws who both terrorized and fascinated the citizenry of western Pennsylvania.
Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
by Ted NaceThe corporation has become the core institution of the modern world. Designed to seek profit and power, it has pursued both with endless tenacity, steadily bending the framework of law and even challenging the sovereign status of the state. Where did the corporation come from? How did it get so much power? What is its ultimate trajectory? After he sold his successful computer book publishing business to a large corporation, Ted Nace felt increasingly driven to find answers to these questions. In Gangs of America he details the rise of corporate power in America through a series of fascinating stories, each organized around a different facet of the central question: "How did corporations get more rights than people?" Beginning with the origin of the corporation in medieval Great Britain, Nace traces both the events that shaped the evolution of corporate power and the colorful personalities who played major roles. Gangs of America is a uniquely accessible synthesis of the latest scholarly research, a compelling historical narrative, and a distinctive personal voice.
Gangs of Russia: From the Streets to the Corridors of Power
by Svetlana StephensonSince their spectacular rise in the 1990s, Russian gangs have remained entrenched in many parts of the country. Some gang members have perished in gang wars or ended up behind prison bars, while others have made spectacular careers off the streets and joined the Russian elite. But the rank and file of gangs remain substantially incorporated into their communities and society as a whole, with bonds and identities that bridge the worlds of illegal enterprise and legal respectability.In Gangs of Russia, Svetlana Stephenson explores the secretive world of the gangs. Using in-depth interviews with gang members, law enforcers, and residents in the city of Kazan, together with analyses of historical and sociological accounts from across Russia, she presents the history of gangs both before and after the arrival of market capitalism.Contrary to predominant notions of gangs as collections of maladjusted delinquents or illegal enterprises, Stephenson argues, Russian gangs should be seen as traditional, close-knit male groups with deep links to their communities. Stephenson shows that gangs have long been intricately involved with the police and other state structures in configurations that are both personal and economic. She also explains how the cultural orientations typical of gangs--emphasis on loyalty to one's own, showing toughness to outsiders, exacting revenge for perceived affronts and challenges--are not only found on the streets but are also present in the top echelons of today's Russian state.
Gangs of St. Louis, The: Men of Respect
by Daniel WaughSt. Louis was a city under siege during Prohibition. Seven different criminal gangs violently vied for control of the town's illegal enterprises. Although their names (the Green Ones, the Pillow Gang, the Russo Gang, Egan's Rats, the Hogan Gang, the Cuckoo Gang and the Shelton Gang) are familiar to many, their exploits have remained largely undocumented until now. Learn how an awkward gunshot wound gave the Pillow Gang its name, and read why Willie Russo's bizarre midnight interview with a reporter from the St. Louis Star involved an automatic pistol and a floating hunk of cheese. From daring bank robberies to cold-blooded betrayals, The Gangs of St. Louis chronicles a fierce yet juicy slice of the Gateway City's history that rivaled anything seen in New York or Chicago.
Gangs of the El Paso–Juárez Borderland: A History
by Mike TapiaThis thought-provoking book examines gang history in the region encompassing West Texas, Southern New Mexico, and Northern Chihuahua, Mexico. Known as the El Paso–Juárez borderland region, the area contains more than three million people spanning 130 miles from east to west. From the badlands—the historically notorious eastern Valle de Juárez—to the Puerto Palomas port of entry at Columbus, New Mexico, this area has become more militarized and politicized than ever before. Mike Tapia examines this region by exploring a century of historical developments through a criminological lens and by studying the diverse subcultures on both sides of the law.Tapia looks extensively at the role of history and geography on criminal subculture formation in the binational urban setting of El Paso–Juárez, demonstrating the region&’s unique context for criminogenic processes. He provides a poignant case study of Homeland Security and the apparent lack of drug-war spillover in communities on the US-Mexico border.