| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840–1890. By Eugene P. Moehring. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2004. xxx, 408 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87417-565-8.)

The history of the nineteenth-century American West is typically understood as a process of Indian conquest accompanied by agrarian settlement. Yet for more than a generation, historians of the urban West have been challenging that interpretation, pointing to the region's rapid urbanization and the critical role of its cities. In Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, Eugene P. Moehring offers the most exhaustive treatment to date of the role of towns and cities in the development of the West. Focusing on the seven states of the Far West (California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho), Moehring argues that, in order to understand the American conquest, we need to consider not just the region's major urban centers but a much vaster network of interconnected towns.

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