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Canada and the United States

Brenda K. Jackson. Domesticating the West: The Re-creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class. (Women in the West.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 180. $50.00.

As indicated in the subtitle of this book, Brenda K. Jackson seeks to examine the little understood, often neglected, and tantalizingly elusive subject of the nineteenth-century American middle class. She chooses as her vehicle a husband and wife of the East, Thomas and Elizabeth Tannatt, whospent much of their married life in a variety of western locales. Jackson argues that the experiences of the Tannatts show how individuals created class structures to benefit themselves, while participating in the processes of community building in the West. Constructing a text grounded in the biographies of the central figures, the author concludes that the lived experiences of ordinary people offer the best means for illuminating the methods and goals of those whobuilt the American middle class in their adopted communities of western regions.

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