| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Katherine G. Morrissey. Mental Territories: Mapping the Inland Empire. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1997. Pp. ix, 220. Cloth $45.00, paper $18.95.

In this book, Katherine G. Morrissey proposes to explain how a particular region of the western United States—the Inland Empire of eastern Washington, northern Idaho and southeastern British Columbia—came to be known as such by both the people who lived in the area and those who resided outside of it. This is particularly interesting because the Inland Empire was not initially defined by specific geographic features such as rivers or mountain valleys. Maps that existed immediately after the Civil War showed no area or region that conformed to the eventual boundaries of the Inland Empire. Thus settlers who migrated to the area were not moving to a known region. Instead, they created the "mental" image and boundaries of the Inland Empire once they got there. This mental process took place between roughly the late 1870s and the turn of the century. How does Morrissey explain the transformation in the last quarter of the nineteenth century of these vaguely charted lands into a region with a widely, even passionately, held identity? . . .

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