Globalization and the American Southwest

The influence of globalization in the American Southwest is not a new or recent trend. It is a process that is more than five hundred years old. The phenomenon began with the arrival of the first Spanish and the French, among others, in the late fifteenth century. From there, the American Southwest was subjected to the proufound influences of economic, political, military, and social pressures over the ensuing centuries. This is also a story of the people who had to live and survive through these deep transitions.