| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1

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Book Review

Border Oasis: Water and the Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940–1975. By Evan R. Ward. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxx + 208 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.)

Evan Ward's Border Oasis is a welcome addition to the small but growing literature on the environmental history of the borderlands of the U. S. Southwest and Mexican North. As such, it examines the complex history and political ecology of the Colorado River Delta's irrigation system that straddles the international border in southern Arizona, northern Sonora, and Baja California. Ward illustrates this complexity when he relates how his study deals with "the union of water, soil, and international politics in the delta" and how U. S.-Mexican relations and "two separate yet interconnected (financially, ecologically, socially, and diplomatically) agricultural revolutions competed and coexisted" (p. 144). To show these diverse connections is no easy task, yet Ward accomplishes this in a book that should be adopted—at least when the book is released in a less expensive paperback version—for history and geography courses on the borderlands, the American West, U. S. foreign relations (especially as scholars in that field are finally starting to add more environmental dimensions to their understanding of diplomatic history), and North American environmental history.

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