The Interoceanic Highway is many things to many people: an emblematic project during a
period focused on integration, a dream realized for an isolated region, a symbol of the …

This paper, presented at the AHA/CLAH Annual Meeting in 2015 examines how Peruvians
viewed the ongoing construction of roads in the early twentieth century. I argue that public …

In this dissertation I investigate the role of road infrastructure (ie the built networks of
communication, travel, and commerce) in the expansion of one of South America's first …

United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Metaphorically, bridges
between El Paso del Norte (now Ciudad Juárez), Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas …

Inscribed in the Margins chronicles the socio-ecological changes that attended the
colonization of Peru's Huallaga Valley from the 1950s through the 1980s. Focused on the …

This article analyzes the different geographical imaginaries that emerged in Peru after
independence and how they were shaped and molded by the infrastructures that were …

Big Water explores four centuries of the overlapping histories of Brazil, Argentina, and
Paraguay (the Triple Frontier), and the colonies that preceded them. Examining an important …

Throughout the 20th century, the Mexican government used road building to incorporate the
country's disparate regions within the national economy and to enhance the visibility of …

This article chronicles the fifteen-month border conflict between the military regimes of Brazil
and Paraguay that occurred between March of 1965 and June of 1966–a stand-off that …

This thesis is an examination of the history of environmental change in the defunct Rio
Grande river valley in the former Panama Canal Zone. By mining secondary sources and …