| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

Hemispheric American Studies. Ed. by Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. x, 356 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-8135-4222-5. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4223-2.)

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in the study of the Americas as a region bridging North and South, and with ties spanning cultures linked together across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Flows of people and ideas, of capital and goods, bind territorial spaces that once were assumed to follow historical logics of their own. Particularly noteworthy in contemporary writings on the Americas as a transnational space is the emphasis on the long-standing if ever-evolving nature of hemispheric ties: thinking in terms of an Americas comprised of porous and ever-shifting boundaries is productive for considerations of the past as well as the present.

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