| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Albert L. Hurtado. Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California. (Histories of the American Frontier.) Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1999. Pp. xxix, 173. Cloth $39.95, paper $17.95.

In this theoretically sophisticated but eminently readable book, Albert L. Hurtado reveals how sexuality and family formation had as much to do with who controlled California as did military and political maneuvers. Influenced by the new western history, Hurtado treats the concept of the frontier as a multicultural meeting place rather than as a Turnerian advancing Euroamerican border. Hurtado is also influenced by the emergent field of the history of sexuality and particularly by Michel Foucault. Unlike many scholars who nod to Foucault, however, Hurtado writes in a lucid style and eschews the use of postmodern jargon. Thus Hurtado's book will not only appeal to scholars of the American West and of gender and sexuality but will also engage undergraduates. . . .

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