| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.3

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Book Review

Power and Place in the North American West. Edited by Richard White and John M. Findlay. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. xx + 312 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, notes, index. $35.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

This anthology gathers together diverse essays on "Power and Place in the North American West" and groups them into four sections: Indians and Non-Indians; Race in the Urban West; Environment and Economy; and Gender in the Urban West. A short introduction serves largely to clarify terms. The editors define place as "a spatial reality constructed by people" and power as "the ability of an agent--be it a person, a corporation, the state, or some other entity--to influence either people or natural forces to act according to that agent's desire or will" (p. x). While the anthology contains fine scholarship by some of our most accomplished historians of the U. S. West, how the essays relate to a common theme is not always obvious. . . .

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