| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Sam Truett and Elliott Young, editors. Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History. (American Encounters/Global Interactions.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 344. Cloth $79.95, paper $22.95.
Borderlands are complex and fascinating places, especially when they are extensive and between diverse countries such as those connecting Russia and China, China and Central Asia, or the United States and Mexico. Whereas to the historical geographer a border generally is linear, formed by a river and/or in particular a line on a map, separating two distinct political entities, a boundary is more dynamic, zonal, and vague, often surrounding a border, and it regularly assumes cultural characteristics of its own apart from the entities that it divides and joins. While the two notions may coincide, they too frequently work against each other. Perhaps the best-known and most knotty example of this historical phenomenon is the long U.S.-Mexico borderland.	1
The essays in this collection, edited by Sam Truett and Elliott Young, collectively seek to recast particularly the social history of the U.S.-Mexico borderland, which currently is at the center of attention in both countries and is an area experiencing vibrant change. The volume begins with the foreword by eminent Southwestern historian David Weber that sets its tone and is followed by a lengthy useful introduction by the editors. The heart of this book is the ten essays by ten younger historians, including the editors, from academic institutions on the American side of the Greater Southwest. It ends with a brief summary conclusion by the editors.	. . .

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