| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4

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Book Review

Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America. Edited by Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. x + 22 pp. Notes, index. $29.50.)

Across the Continent represents a return to scholarship that recognizes the need to understand the past in its own terms and in its broadest context. To this end, Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey Hantman, and Peter Onuf are to be credited with editing a well conceived and insightful collection of interdisciplinary essays that study the Lewis and Clark Expedition from the perspective of Enlightenment science, international commerce, empire building and the geopolitics of a fledgling nation. Although I touched on these topics in my 1977 biography of William Clark, the contributors to Across the Continent—an archaeologist, an anthropologist, a political scientist, and four historians—offer a much more thorough analysis of these important themes.

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