| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.2

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| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

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

With only a couple of exceptions, the subfield of urban environmental history suffers from a dearth of comprehensive surveys of individual cities. One is much more likely to come across detailed accounts of infrastructure development, disease epidemics, and the like. On the Border, edited by the prolific Char Miller, begins to address this imbalance by providing a range of perspectives on the environmental history of San Antonio. In doing so, the book also shifts our attention a bit from cities of the northeast and midwest to the southwest. This introduces a number of different issues into the narrative of urban environmental transformation, although there are still a good many common themes. . . .

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