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The issues that dominate U.S.aEURO"Mexico border relations today - integration of economies, policing of boundaries, and the flow of workers from south to north and of capital from north to south - are not recent developments. In this insightful history of the state of Nuevo LeA^3n, Juan Mora-Torres explores how these processes transformed northern Mexico into a region with distinct economic, political, social, and cultural features that set it apart from the interior of Mexico. Mora-Torres argues that the years between the establishment of the U.S.aEURO"Mexico boundary in 1848 and the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 constitute a critical period in Mexican history. The processes of state-building, emergent capitalism, and growing linkages to the United States transformed localities and identities and shaped class formations and struggles in Nuevo LeA^3n. Monterrey emerged as the leading industrial centre and home of the most powerful business elite, while the countryside deteriorated economically, politically, and demographically. By 1910, Mora-Torres concludes, the border states had already assumed much of their modern character: an advanced capitalist economy, some of MexicoaEURO(t)s most powerful business groups, and a labour market dependent on massive migrations from central Mexico.