| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.3

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Book Review

From All Points: America's Immigrant West, 1870s–1952. By Elliott Robert Barkan. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xix + 598 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

Having devoted a stellar career to documenting and interpreting American immigration history, Elliott Robert Barkan turns his attention to the American West in the first of a planned two volume set. An engaging and complex work, From All Points makes a persuasive case for the centrality of immigrants to the growth of the West. Barkan opens each of his four chronological sections with vignettes of individual immigrants' stories that evoke four central themes: changes in the composition of immigrants into the West and their experiences; changes in western economic development and how these impacted immigrants; changes in laws and policies; and changes in patterns of adaptation and accommodation, whether among immigrants or between immigrants and Americans.

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