Postcards from the Sonora Border Visualizing Place Through a Popular Lens, 1900s-1950s

"Postcards from the Sonora Border is a must-read for everyone interested in understanding representations of place, regardless of regional interest." - The AAG Review of Books

"La obra de Arreola busca exponer có mo condiciones globales se entrelazan con los eventos locales, dando forma a la historia de los pueblos que esboza en su libro." - El Imparcial

"Border historians and postcard aficionados will want to linger over this volume for both its images and its analysis." - Southwestern Historical Quarterly

"This book is a useful contribution to border studies and cultural geography methodologies, but also an engaging, informative read. Postcards at its core is an erudite but easily-read examination of the urban anatomies and personalities of border towns along the Sonora-Arizona border in the first half of the twentieth Century." - Journal of Historical Geography

"This carefully researched and well-written book not only covers the work of individual postcard photographers and their business enterprises (which Arreola discusses in considerable detail), but also addresses the lives of residents and visitors who helped develop and sustain these distinctive communities. Ultimately, Postcards from the Sonora Border is a testimonial to how popular culture creates, and thereafter commemorates, places." - Geographical Review

"A must-read for historians interested in delving into the fascinating and oftentimes tumultuous past of the Sonora-Arizona borderlands during this time period." - Hispanic American Historical Review

"Arreola 39's book stands as a valuable visual companion to the growing canon of Arizona-Sonora borderlands history." - The Journal of Arizona History

"An impressive book by a distinguished borderlands geographer and historian. There is no other book like it." - Oscar J. Martí nez, author of Border Boom Town: Ciudad Juá rez since 848