| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

From All Points: America's Immigrant West, 1870s–1952. By Elliott Robert Barkan. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xxii, 598 pp. $39.95, ISBN 978-0-253-34851-7.)

In From All Points, Elliot Robert Barkan offers a sweeping, celebratory, and (perhaps necessarily) dizzying account of diverse migrations into the American West. Building on the insights of new western historians who have identified ethnoracial diversity as a mark of regional distinctiveness and significance, Barkan seeks to make immigrants a more central part of the narrative of the West's social, cultural, and economic development. Recent works have addressed the struggles of specific immigrant groups, but with the notable exception of Walter Nugent's Into the West (1999), none have treated immigrants collectively or as comprehensively as does From All Points. And unlike Nugent's text, Barkan's book examines not only sociodemographics but immigrant cultures, chronicling contexts of reception and complex negotiations between the translocal and transnational, among retention, adaptation, and integration. Fundamentally, Barkan views the West not as a unified place created by "a people" but as a loosely held together region of many "peoples" (p. xii).

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