| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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Book Review

On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio. Edited by Char Miller. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. x + 291 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $26.00.)

San Antonio is a city shaped by its borders. Geographically, it is located where the Great Plains meet the gulf coastal plain, in a zone of transition between the humid East and the arid West. Culturally, San Antonio is situated at the crossroads of Anglo America and Latin America. Perhaps most important, the city's social landscape has been organized along the virtually impenetrable boundaries of race, class, and ethnicity. As the title of this interdisciplinary anthology of original essays suggests, San Antonio's environmental history springs from the intersections of these borders, especially as they gave rise to political struggles over water management, the provision of park land, economic development priorities, and historic preservation. . . .

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